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 3,626

49,893

India 1,740

26,277

South Korea 565

27,099

Czechia 491

27,000

Slovakia 299

24,926

Russia 439

19,990

Germany 1,363

17,998

Brazil 2,643

15,334

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, Jun 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