🆚 Nginx vs. Tomcat
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Tomcat.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Nginx
TomcatType
Web server
Web server
About
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.
Apache Tomcat is an open-source 
Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
tomcat.apache.orgPricing
Free version ✔️Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Nginx web server is 33 times more popular than Tomcat.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Nginx is more popular than Tomcat in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
Awards
- 🥇 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 Caching category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand 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 education and reference, while Tomcat is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.