Web servers · comparison
Apache HTTP Server vs Cowboy
Apache HTTP Server is used on 1,787,502 sites, 203 times as many as Cowboy (8,817 sites).
In Web servers, Apache HTTP Server ranks #2 and Cowboy #10 by number of sites.
From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Apache HTTP Server grew 0.4% and Cowboy held steady.
1 site runs both: less than 0.1% of Apache HTTP Server sites and less than 0.1% of Cowboy sites.
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Apache HTTP Server
httpd.apache.org
- Sites
- 1,787,502
- Share of tracked sites
- 11.65%
- Rank in Web servers
- #2
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.36%
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Cowboy
github.com/ninenines/cowboy
- Sites
- 8,817
- Share of tracked sites
- 0.06%
- Rank in Web servers
- #10
- Change since Jul 2026
- ▲ +0.01%
Sites using both
1
sites run Apache HTTP Server and Cowboy
of Apache HTTP Server sites<0.1%
of Cowboy sites<0.1%
Top sites using Apache HTTP Server
- wso2.download#17,612
- scilab.org#25,585
- akaihane.or.jp#110,800
- ai-gakkai.or.jp#117,764
- ucatolica.edu.co#156,485
Often used with Apache HTTP Server
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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.