🆚 Caddy vs. Cowboy
- 📈 Caddy is much more popular than Cowboy.
- 🌎 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Cowboy is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
CaddyType
Web server
Web server
About
Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in 
Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.
It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a 
JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.
Erlang
WebSocketHeadquarters
Vienna, Austria
France
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #7
Web Servers › Rank #19
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Caddy web server is 15 times more popular than Cowboy.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands, while Cowboy is more popular in the British Virgin Islands.
Germany
United States
Netherlands
France
United Kingdom
Sweden
Russia
Spain
Belgium
Austria
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Finland in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Caddy is more popular than Cowboy in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Kestrel🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,531,795 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.