🆚 Nginx vs. Speed Optimizer

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Nginx
Speed Optimizer

Type

Web server
Caching

About

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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The SiteGround Speed Optimizer plugin is a free WordPress performance solution that includes file-based caching, minification, and font and font optimization.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Sofia, Bulgaria

Website

nginx.org #37,555
siteground.com #22,672

Pricing

Free version ✔️ Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #1
Caching › Rank #15
WordPress Plugins › Rank #50

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 117 times more popular than Speed Optimizer.
Total websites

Market share

Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular than Speed Optimizer in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular than Speed Optimizer 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.

Name
Rank
#5
#17
#18
#21
#38
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Name
Rank
#2,671
#7,864
#8,469
#20,233
#29,394
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