🆚 Cowboy vs. Google Servlet Engine
- 📈 Google Servlet Engine is five times more popular than Cowboy.
- 🌎 Google Servlet Engine is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India.
- 🌍 Cowboy is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, the Netherlands, and the Philippines.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Web server
Web server
About
Cowboy is a small, fast, and modern HTTP server for Erlang that supports
WebSocket, HTTP/2, and REST.
Google Servlet Engine (GSE) is a fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.
Headquarters
France
Mountain View, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #13
Web Servers › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Servlet Engine web server is 5 times more popular than Cowboy.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google Servlet Engine is more popular in the United States, Indonesia, and India, while Cowboy is more popular in the British Virgin Islands, the Netherlands, and the Philippines.
United States
Indonesia
India
Brazil
British Virgin Islands
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in the Philippines in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Greece in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in India in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Vietnam in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Servlet Engine is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, entertainment, and education and reference, while Cowboy is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, travel, and potentially unwanted programs sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
General News
Sports
Technical/Business Forums
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

