How many companies use Nginx?

TechLeads currently detects Nginx on 8,387,228 websites. HTTP Archive's monthly crawl, a separate dataset, detected it on 11,932,304 pages in September 2026.

Who are Nginx's biggest competitors?

By number of websites, the largest Web servers technologies besides Nginx are Apache HTTP Server (5,346,952), LiteSpeed (2,342,801), OpenResty (1,214,735), Next.js (1,036,081), IIS (743,642).

Which companies use Nginx?

Websites using Nginx include wordpress.org, techcrunch.com, steamcommunity.com, mailchimp.com, weibo.com, foursquare.com. The full list of 8,387,228 websites can be exported as a CSV for $29.

Nginx market share and customers

As of October 9, 2026, Nginx is used by 8,387,228 websites in the TechLeads index: 41.7% of all Web servers detections, the 1st most-used of 81 Web servers technologies.

8,387,228

websites using Nginx

41.7%

share of Web servers

of 81 in Web servers

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Nginx vs competitors in Web servers

Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all Web servers detections.

#	Technology	Websites	Share
1	Nginx	8,387,228	41.7%
2	Apache HTTP Server	5,346,952	26.5%
3	LiteSpeed	2,342,801	11.6%
4	OpenResty	1,214,735	6.0%
5	Next.js	1,036,081	5.1%
6	IIS	743,642	3.7%
7	Express	337,546	1.7%

Nginx usage over time

In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, Nginx was detected on 11,932,304 pages in September 2026, down 11.0% from a year earlier (peak: 15,541,939). Among the 1,000 most-visited sites, it appeared on 485. HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.

Same month, other Reverse proxies technologies in HTTP Archive: Envoy 605,348, Kong 6,323, F5 BigIP 1,364, EZproxy 655, IBM DataPower 526.

Nginx customers by country

Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.

US24,404
DE7,170
GB5,900
FR3,815
RU2,801
JP2,626
IT2,523
BR1,278
AU1,234
NL1,183

Companies using Nginx

wordpress.org · WordPress
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
steamcommunity.com
mailchimp.com
weibo.com
foursquare.com · Foursquare
fortune.com
disqus.com
peatix.com
microformats.org
meyerweb.com
telegram.org

See all 8,387,228 websites using Nginx or download the full list as a CSV for $29.

How these numbers are calculated

TechLeads scans public websites and detects Nginx from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Nginx's website count divided by the website counts of all Web servers technologies we track; a site using two Web servers tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 9, 2026 and update daily.

FAQ

Nginx accounts for 41.7% of Web servers detections in the TechLeads index (8,387,228 websites), which makes it the 1st most-used of 81 Web servers technologies we track.