Nginx vs OpenResty

Nginx is used by more websites in our catalog: 133,349 use Nginx and 4,190 use OpenResty.

OpenResty sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Nginx: 25, OpenResty: 30).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Nginx went from 16% to 15% of all tracked sites, while OpenResty went from 0.55% to 0.48%. OpenResty is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Nginx and OpenResty.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.