You’re comparing a new project to nginx. Obviously nginx will be faster maybe not across the board but generally it probably is. As a project matures it will optimize surely! nginx has 21 years of development under its belt.
It is often a mistake to draw conclusions even with benchmarks. Are the benchmarks measuring what is relevant to your use case? Are the benchmarks unbiased.
Your link does not seem to contain any benchmarks anyway.
The Ferron benchmarks on their home page say Apache Pre fork MPM outperforms Apache Even MPM which seems odd to me.
I think this is really cool. More competition in this space is better not worse, I am merely curious to know how it stacks up