๐ Nginx vs. WP Rocket
Nginx is much more popular than WP Rocket.
Nginx is more popular in all countries.
WP Rocket is particularly popular in Iran, France, and Spain.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Web server
Caching solution
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.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Lyon, France
Pricing
Free version โ๏ธ Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year
Free version โ
$59/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Nginx web server is 8 times more popular than WP Rocket.
Total websites
Market share
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Nginx is more popular than WP Rocket in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Spain
France
China
Italy
Awards
- ๐ฅ Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ๐ฅ Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- ๐ฅ Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Second most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Second most popular in France in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Second most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Second most popular in Iran in the Caching category.
- ๐ฅ Second most popular in Israel in the Caching 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 WP Rocket is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, health, and travel sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Marketing/Merchandising
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
๐๏ธ About This Data
- 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.





