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 3,151

42,667

South Korea 490

25,476

Czechia 417

25,453

India 1,475

22,436

Slovakia 257

22,904

Russia 389

17,569

Germany 1,133

15,296

Brazil 2,305

12,938

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, Sep 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