Kestrel vs LiteSpeed

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Kestrel · LiteSpeed · 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

Kestrel · LiteSpeed · share of sites in each country using one or the other

India 3,169

142,798

United States 8,015

96,715

Indonesia 1,494

90,611

Poland 1,493

83,488

Brazil 2,611

81,829

United Kingdom 3,552

60,596

Türkiye 1,801

60,567

Vietnam 1,156

49,050

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 Kestrel sites · All LiteSpeed sites