🆚 Microsoft IIS vs. Nginx
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Microsoft IIS.
- 🌎 Nginx is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 Microsoft IIS is more popular in Turkey and Brunei Darussalam.
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About
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is an extensible web server developed by Microsoft for 
Windows systems.
It has a modular architecture with standalone components, supports HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, FTP, FTPS, SMTP, and NNTP protocols, enables worker process isolation through application pools, and provides native integration with ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core.
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.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Brunei Darussalam in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Italy in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers 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.
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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.