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Microsoft HTTPAPI vs Nginx
Nginx is used on 2,541,445 sites, 891 times as many as Microsoft HTTPAPI (2,853 sites).
In Web servers, Microsoft HTTPAPI ranks #20 and Nginx #1 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Microsoft HTTPAPI grew 1.2% and Nginx grew 0.8%.
1,064 sites run both: 37% of Microsoft HTTPAPI sites and less than 0.1% of Nginx sites.
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Microsoft HTTPAPI
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/http/http-api-start-page
- Sites
- 2,853
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.02%
- Rank in Web servers
- #20
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +1.2%
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Nginx
nginx.org/en
- Sites
- 2,541,445
- Share of tracked sites
- 16.2%
- Rank in Web servers
- #1
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.76%
Sites using both
1,064
sites run Microsoft HTTPAPI and Nginx
of Microsoft HTTPAPI sites37.3%
of Nginx sites<0.1%
Top sites using Microsoft HTTPAPI
No ranked site yet.
All Microsoft HTTPAPI sites →Often used with Microsoft HTTPAPI
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.