🆚 Kestrel vs. Lighttpd

📈 Kestrel is three times more popular than Lighttpd.
🌎 Kestrel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Lighttpd is more popular in Russia, Germany, and France.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Kestrel

Lighttpd

Type

Web server

About

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.

Lighttpd (pronounced /lighty/) is an open-source web server optimized for high performance environments and low resource usage.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Germany

Website

learn.microsoft.com

lighttpd.net #2,985,840

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Kestrel web server is 3 times more popular than Lighttpd.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Kestrel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Lighttpd is more popular in Russia, Germany, and France.

United States

Russia

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Germany

Brazil

France

Australia

Sweden

Italy

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Georgia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Iran 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.

⭐ 6th most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Argentina in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
🔥 11st most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Servers category.
🔥 12nd most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Kestrel is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Lighttpd is more commonly used on fashion and beauty sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Motor Vehicles

Software/Hardware

Blogs/Wiki

Internet Services

Sports

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#30

#91

#205

#253

#1,584

Name

Rank

#529

#3,706

#15,800

#19,068

#25,252