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
54
Open Page Rank 8+
56
1,294
Open Page Rank 7+
141
5,132
Open Page Rank 6+
197
9,814
Open Page Rank 5+
284
16,443
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
913
121,997
India
348
60,938
United Kingdom
353
43,541
Italy
292
40,345
Brazil
274
35,974
Germany
1,180
32,389
Canada
249
32,014
Türkiye
208
31,421
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, 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.
Windows Server to FreeBSD
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hotelsinnsbruck.at | Mar 2026 |
| hotelsalgherosardinia.com | Feb 2026 |
| antalyacoast.com | Nov 2025 |