Apache HTTP Server vs Cowboy

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Apache HTTP Server · Cowboy · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Apache HTTP Server · Cowboy · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 398,004

3,150

Germany 364,164

1,174

Japan 273,172

752

France 236,181

1,178

India 200,300

1,531

Brazil 172,780

2,387

United Kingdom 156,332

1,488

Spain 155,877

1,022

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Apache HTTP Server sites · All Cowboy sites