🆚 Google Web Server vs. OpenResty
- 📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Google Web Server.
- 🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
- 🌍 Google Web Server is more popular in Guatemala, Tanzania, and Papua New Guinea.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google Web Server
OpenRestyType
Web server
Web server
About
Google Web Server (GWS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
OpenResty is an 
Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.
It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Millbrae, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #21
Web Servers › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The OpenResty web server is 176 times more popular than Google Web Server.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea, while Google Web Server is more popular in Guatemala, Tanzania, and Papua New Guinea.
United States
China
Korea
Netherlands
Russia
Slovakia
Germany
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
Vietnam
Awards
- 🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenResty is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while Google Web Server is more commonly used on search engines sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Travel
General News
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tengine🗃️ 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.