Nginx vs Phusion Passenger

Nginx is used by more websites in our catalog: 133,349 use Nginx and 943 use Phusion Passenger.

Phusion Passenger sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Nginx: 25, Phusion Passenger: 32).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Nginx went from 16% to 15% of all tracked sites, while Phusion Passenger went from 0.12% to 0.11%. Phusion Passenger is gaining ground faster in our index.

415 websites in our catalog use both Nginx and Phusion Passenger.

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.