๐Ÿ†š Nginx vs. WP Rocket

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.

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WP Rocket is a caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites.

It implements page caching for static HTML, separate mobile caching, browser caching for repeated visits, automatic preload, and minification of CSS, JS, and HTML.

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Headquarters

Seattle, Washington, United States
Lyon, France

Website

Pricing

Free version โœ”๏ธ Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year
Free version โŒ
$59/year

Categories

Web Servers โ€บ Rank #1
Caching โ€บ Rank #1
Caching โ€บ Rank #3
WordPress Plugins โ€บ Rank #8

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

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.

Name
Rank
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Name
Rank
ijavhd.com
#243
#776
xorgasmo.com
#904
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See also

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