🆚 Nginx vs. WEBrick

📈 Nginx is much more popular than WEBrick.
🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Nginx

WEBrick

Type

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.

WEBrick is an HTTP server toolkit that can be configured as an HTTPS server, a proxy server, and a virtual host server.

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States

Website

nginx.org #37,555

GitHub #13

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source

NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Nginx web server is 26,372 times more popular than WEBrick.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Nginx is more popular than WEBrick 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 Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Nginx is more popular than WEBrick in all market segments.

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.

Name

Rank

#17

#18

#21

#38

Name

Rank

#284,847

#354,486

#460,432

#554,681