🆚 GitHub Pages vs. Heroku
- 📈 GitHub Pages is three times more popular than Heroku.
- 🌎 GitHub Pages is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌎 Heroku is more popular in Argentina, South Africa, and Mexico.
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About
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that publishes 
HTML, 
CSS, and 
JavaScript files directly from repositories hosted on 
GitHub.
It supports automatic deployment from 
Git branches and GitHub Actions workflows, provides free HTTPS, and allows hosting on a default github.io subdomain as well as on custom domains.
Heroku is a cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and scale web applications without managing underlying infrastructure.
It provides isolated containers called Dynos, which are based on 
LXC (older Cedar generation) and 
Kubernetes (new Fir generation), and managed data services including 
Postgres, Key-Value Store, and Apache Kafka.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Deployment Platforms category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Deployment Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
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- 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 3,827,502 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.