🆚 Hiawatha vs. Kestrel
- 📈 Kestrel is much more popular than Hiawatha.
- 🌎 Kestrel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Hiawatha is more popular in Thailand, Bulgaria, and Tunisia.
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About
Hiawatha is an open-source, cross-platform web server with built-in protection against SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks.
Kestrel is an open-source, cross-platform web server for 
ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, 
Linux, and macOS.
It uses an event-driven, high-performance architecture to handle many concurrent connections, supports HTTP/1.1, 
HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and 
WebSockets, provides HTTPS support, and integrates closely with the ASP.NET Core middleware pipeline and configuration system.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in China in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.