🆚 LiteSpeed Cache vs. Nginx

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Nginx is much more popular than LiteSpeed Cache.
🌎 Nginx is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
🌍 LiteSpeed Cache is more popular in Liberia and Western Sahara.

LiteSpeed Cache

Nginx

Type

Caching solution

Web server

About

LiteSpeed Cache is a server-side caching solution designed specifically for LiteSpeed web servers, available as a plugin for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Shopware, etc.

Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.

It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.

Headquarters

Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

lscache.io #809,263

nginx.org #37,555

Pricing

Free ✔️Requires LiteSpeed Web Server or QUIC.cloud CDN

Free version ✔️Open source

NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 7 times more popular than LiteSpeed Cache.

Total websites

Market share

Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while LiteSpeed Cache is more popular in Liberia and Western Sahara.

United States

Japan

Germany

Russia

United Kingdom

Netherlands

China

Spain

France

Italy

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Caching category.
🥈 Second most popular in India in the Caching category.
🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Caching category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Caching category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching 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 among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while LiteSpeed Cache is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, health, and sports sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Travel

General News

Software/Hardware

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO