High-performance open-source web server and reverse proxy that powers a large share of the public web.
Found via: Product Hunt 4,065 · Hacker News 325 · PeerPush 379 · Other 4 · StackScope Discovery (Indie) 1,442 · StackScope Wider Web 7,291
Figures on this page reflect sites found via StackScope Wider Web only. The "Found via" counts above always show every source. Reset
nginx has been detected on 7,291 launches we've crawled, with 7291 of those in July 2026 (12.4% of the month's launches so far). The 7-day rolling share is 13.3%, up 1.4 percentage points from last week. Most recent detection was yesterday.
It's most commonly paired with Ubuntu, Google Fonts, and Vite. By product type, the launches using it are most often Developer Tools (23%), E-commerce (13%), and AI (8%). By estimated origin, Russia (23%) and China (22%) lead close together. By domain ending, launches using it are 11.4 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .store domain.
What kind of products ship with nginx
1,877 launches
Countries that use nginx
Estimated origin for 2,584 of 7,291 sites
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Russia 22.83%
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China 21.59%
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India 17.92%
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Canada 9.95%
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Japan 4.45%
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United Kingdom 3.52%
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South Korea 2.48%
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New Zealand 2.40%
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United States 2.24%
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Ukraine 1.97%
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Germany 1.90%
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Indonesia 1.47%
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Italy 1.12%
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Vietnam 1.12%
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Netherlands 0.58%
Share of new launches using nginx
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average.
Server leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
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| #1 |
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12.38% | 35.98% | |
| #2 |
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10.13% | 29.43% | |
| #3 |
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9.53% | 27.71% | |
| #4 |
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3.67% | 10.68% | |
| #5 |
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2.82% | 8.21% |
Percentages show adoption among launches found via StackScope Wider Web: the share of all such launches, and of those using any Server tool. All 29 in Server →
7,291 sites across the wider web use nginx
StackScope Wider Web counts newly launched sites that are not indie product launches. They shape the aggregate figures on this page but are never listed individually. How StackScope Discovery works · Back to launches