🆚 Default Page vs. Directory Index
- 📈 Default Page is four times more popular than Directory Index.
- 🌎 Default Page is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Directory Index is more popular in Zambia, Armenia, and Angola.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Special page
Special page
About
The default page is a general placeholder page that is displayed by the web server if no specific website is configured.
A directory index page is an automatically generated web page that lists the files and folders in a website's directory if the default page does not exist.
Categories
Special Pages › Rank #1
Special Pages › Rank #4
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Default Page technology is 4 times more popular than Directory Index.
Total websites
Market share
Special Pages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Default Page is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Directory Index is more popular in Zambia, Armenia, and Angola.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
Australia
Italy
Spain
India
France
Turkey
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Special Pages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Special Pages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Special Pages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Special Pages category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Italy in the Special Pages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Special Pages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Malaysia in the Special Pages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Portugal in the Special Pages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Brazil in the Special Pages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Indonesia in the Special Pages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Default Page is more popular than Directory Index in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Content Server
General News
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 3,816,146 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.