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 2,940

123,292

United States 7,499

84,795

Brazil 2,439

75,601

Poland 1,333

75,651

Indonesia 1,324

74,226

United Kingdom 3,289

51,794

Türkiye 1,606

50,933

Vietnam 1,040

40,655

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, 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.

All Kestrel sites · All LiteSpeed sites