Cowboy vs OpenResty

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

Top sites by authority

Cowboy · OpenResty · 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

Cowboy · OpenResty · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 3,150

43,802

Czechia 407

25,029

South Korea 476

24,932

India 1,531

22,734

Slovakia 247

22,400

Russia 386

17,287

Germany 1,174

15,995

Brazil 2,387

13,450

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 Cowboy sites · All OpenResty sites