🆚 GitHub Pages vs. Heroku
- 📈 GitHub Pages is much more popular than Heroku.
- 🌍 GitHub Pages is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
HerokuType
Deployment platform
Deployment platform
About
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes 
HTML, 
CSS, and 
JavaScript files straight from a repository on 
GitHub.
Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Soft bandwidth limit of 100 GB per month
Team$4/user/month
Enterprise$21/user/month
Free version ❌
Heroku Dynos$5+/month
Heroku Postgres$5+/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The GitHub Pages deployment platform is 218 times more popular than Heroku.
Total websites
Market share
Deployment Platforms
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
GitHub Pages is more popular than Heroku in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Japan
Canada
China
India
Brazil
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Malta in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Deployment Platforms category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in the United States in the Cloud Services category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
GitHub Pages is more popular than Heroku in all market segments.
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Internet Services
Technical Information
Education/Reference
Technical/Business Forums
Games
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Salesforce, Inc. company profile🗃️ 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 3,370,405 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.