FreeBSD vs Windows Server
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
FreeBSD · Windows Server · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
61
Open Page Rank 8+
58
1,333
Open Page Rank 7+
145
5,327
Open Page Rank 6+
209
10,164
Open Page Rank 5+
295
17,038
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
FreeBSD · Windows Server · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,028
137,903
India
372
69,310
United Kingdom
411
49,506
Italy
362
47,568
Brazil
306
39,706
Germany
1,321
36,929
Türkiye
257
36,852
Canada
310
36,570
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | FreeBSD | Windows Server |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 ms |
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.
Windows Server to FreeBSD
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hotelsinnsbruck.at | Mar 2026 |
| hotelsalgherosardinia.com | Feb 2026 |
| antalyacoast.com | Nov 2025 |