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+
1
51
Open Page Rank 8+
56
1,265
Open Page Rank 7+
130
4,989
Open Page Rank 6+
180
9,515
Open Page Rank 5+
262
15,907
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
887
118,668
India
347
59,691
United Kingdom
355
43,146
Italy
302
41,478
Brazil
276
35,359
Germany
1,145
31,833
Canada
261
31,851
Türkiye
215
31,348
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, 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.
Windows Server to FreeBSD
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hotelsinnsbruck.at | Mar 2026 |
| hotelsalgherosardinia.com | Feb 2026 |
| antalyacoast.com | Nov 2025 |