🆚 Hummingbird vs. Nginx
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Hummingbird.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Hummingbird
NginxType
Performance optimization technology
Web server
About
Hummingbird is a 
WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration.
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.
It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, 
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, 
WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.
Headquarters
Melbourne, Australia
Seattle, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Open source
Pro $180+/year
Free version ✔️ Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year
Categories
Performance Optimization › Rank #17
Caching › Rank #16
Caching › Rank #1
WordPress Plugins › Rank #54
Web Servers › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Nginx web server is 125 times more popular than Hummingbird.
Total websites
Market share
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Nginx is more popular than Hummingbird in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Ireland in the Caching category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Norway in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Ireland in the Performance Optimization category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in South Africa in the Caching category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Switzerland in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Nginx is more popular than Hummingbird in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Public Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.