Actually Apache has far more performance speed than both
NGINX and Lightspeed and will run circles around both
and can handle many, many times more connections
and less prone to ddos attacks.
The flipside of that coin is it is a lot more complicated to
configure Apache and most people on average either are
not experienced or skilled enough to properly configure
Apache or just simply too lazy and for all those who fit
into those groups, another solution such as NGINX or
Lightspeed would be a better option because they can
give you semi-well tuned Apache performance without
the hassle of having to do a lot of configuring.