🆚 Kestrel vs. Tomcat

📈 Tomcat is much more popular than Kestrel.
🌎 Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌎 Kestrel is more popular in Brazil, Turkey, and Russia.

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

Kestrel

Tomcat

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.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java application server that implements Java Servlet and Jakarta Server Pages specifications.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

learn.microsoft.com

tomcat.apache.org

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Tomcat web server is 7 times more popular than Kestrel.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Tomcat is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Kestrel is more popular in Brazil, Turkey, and Russia.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Canada

Netherlands

Indonesia

Germany

New Zealand

Korea

Switzerland

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.

⭐ 5th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Australia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in New Zealand in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Tomcat is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Kestrel is more commonly used on motor vehicles sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Online Shopping

Restaurants

Sports

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#30

#91

#205

#253

#1,584

Name

Rank

#1,553

#2,574

#2,788

#3,344

universiteitleiden.nl

#5,471