🆚 Cowboy vs. Yaws
- 📈 Cowboy is much more popular than Yaws.
- 🌍 Cowboy is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Yaws is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ 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.
Yaws (Yet another web server) is a high perfomance HTTP server written in Erlang.
Headquarters
France
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #18
Web Servers › Rank #40
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Cowboy web server is 185 times more popular than Yaws.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Cowboy is more popular than Yaws in all countries.
United States
Brazil
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Netherlands
Switzerland
France
Australia
Belgium
Awards
- ⭐ 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.
Cowboy is more popular than Yaws in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Travel
Job Search
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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LiteSpeed Web Server🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.