nginx on new websites

High-performance open-source web server and reverse proxy that powers a large share of the public web.

Sites using nginx
573,869
since Apr 2026
Last 30 days
10.7%
of new sites, to Oct 18
+1.8 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
10.5%
of new sites, 7-day average
-0.3 pts on the week before
Rank in Server
#1
of 141 tools, all time
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website nginx.org

What we found

  1. About 1 in 9 websites that went live in the last 30 days use nginx (10.7%).[1]
  2. It is the most common web server on new sites.

Share of new sites using nginx

0% 5% 10% 15% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use nginx, since 10 September.

Who uses nginx

Kind of site 146,604 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
E-commerce 18,550 12.7%
Health 17,304 11.8%
Developer Tools 14,964 10.2%
Productivity 14,742 10.1%
Finance 12,638 8.6%
Education 12,162 8.3%
Games 10,399 7.1%
Content 9,614 6.6%
Marketing 9,540 6.5%
Social 7,796 5.3%
AI 7,561 5.2%
Crypto 3,747 2.6%
Country[2] 129,717 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
Japan 23,685 18.3%
France 16,288 12.6%
UK 14,242 11.0%
India 10,619 8.2%
US 9,973 7.7%
China 5,541 4.3%
Canada 5,108 3.9%
Sweden 4,231 3.3%
Switzerland 3,836 3.0%
Brazil 3,791 2.9%
Germany 3,310 2.6%
Ukraine 3,220 2.5%
Domain ending 571,163 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 325,070 56.9%
.online 28,453 5.0%
.fr 16,288 2.9%
.org 15,899 2.8%
.site 15,800 2.8%
.uk 14,899 2.6%
.net 14,124 2.5%
.in 12,769 2.2%
.app 11,530 2.0%
.xyz 10,994 1.9%
.tech 7,800 1.4%
.ca 6,927 1.2%
Green hosting[3] 9,288 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
nginx 38%
All new sites 47%

Server on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category Bar
1 – nginx 9.5% 37.4%
2 – LiteSpeed Web Server 6.6% 25.9%
3 – Apache 4.7% 18.3%
4 – Caddy 3.0% 11.7%
5 – OpenResty 0.9% 3.5%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Server tool. All 141 in Server

Recently launched products built on nginx

81,104 of the 573,869 sites using nginx are product launches we list individually. The other 492,765 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Showing the most recent 12 of 81,104.

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Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
  3. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.

How this page is made

FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards nginx when we detect nginx on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites

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