A side-by-side comparison of two hosting & cdn providers, based on the 404,518 Hosting / CDN sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | GitHub Pages | Heroku |
|---|---|---|
| Websites | 2,374 | 219 |
| Market share | 0.59% | 0.05% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.07% | 0.01% |
| Share of top 100K sites |
|---|
| 0.14% |
| 0.01% |
| Rank | #22 | #29 |
|---|
| Median DR | 66 | 2 |
|---|
| Average DR | 57 | 13 |
|---|
| Median keywords | 423 | 116 |
|---|
| Median referring domains | 587 | 86 |
|---|
| Median domain age | 11 yrs | 5 yrs |
|---|
| Average domain age | 11 yrs | 7 yrs |
|---|
| Average monthly traffic | 44,443 | 10,177 |
|---|
| Combined monthly traffic | 105,507,045 | 2,228,802 |
|---|
Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
2,374 websites · rank #22
Top industries
Top markets
219 websites · rank #29
Top industries
Top markets
GitHub Pages is used by more websites in our catalog: 2,374 use GitHub Pages and 219 use Heroku.
GitHub Pages sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (GitHub Pages: 66, Heroku: 2).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, GitHub Pages went from 0.30% to 0.27% of all tracked sites, while Heroku went from 0.03% to 0.02%. Heroku is gaining ground faster in our index.
0 websites in our catalog use both GitHub Pages and Heroku.
Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "GitHub Pages vs Heroku." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/hosting/compare/github-pages-vs-heroku
Site Stats Database tracks 2,374 websites using GitHub Pages and 219 using Heroku, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every hosting or CDN provider by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 25 |
| 40,072 |
| 532 |
| 8 yrs |
| 3,569,269 |
| GitHub Pages |
| cs231n.github.io | Hungarian | 94 | 457 | 3,623 | 13 yrs | 1,918,719 | GitHub Pages |
| git-scm.com | English | 91 | 25,518 | 85,916 | 17 yrs | 1,768,595 | GitHub Pages |
| zachmanson.com | English | 36 | 760 | 469 | 5 yrs | 1,256,341 | GitHub Pages |
| googlesnakemods.com | English | 35 | 749 | 531 | 2 yrs | 1,106,621 | GitHub Pages |
| ask.com | English | 82 | 152,389 | 54,922 | 27 yrs | 926,879 | GitHub Pages |
| brew.sh | English | 90 | 27,123 | 35,780 | 13 yrs | 826,866 | GitHub Pages |
| clocktab.com | English | 38 | 3,524 | 483 | 14 yrs | 751,933 | GitHub Pages |
| explorefall.com | English | 51 | 7,575 | 2,182 | 3 yrs | 729,100 | GitHub Pages |
| 21 |
| 1,162 |
| 35 |
| 0 yrs |
| 119,566 |
| Heroku |
| ggapp.io | English | 43 | 1,354 | 816 | 99,362 | Heroku |
| scholars.duke.edu | English | 90 | 9,782 | 6,495 | 40 yrs | 76,842 | Heroku |
| hanzihero.com | English | 35 | 8,488 | 232 | 3 yrs | 72,057 | Heroku |
| river.com | English | 73 | 7,116 | 6,214 | 31 yrs | 67,568 | Heroku |
| portaportal.com | English | 42 | 4,066 | 988 | 27 yrs | 53,674 | Heroku |
| holdmyticket.com | English | 74 | 8,362 | 5,727 | 18 yrs | 49,385 | Heroku |
| coveragecat.com | English | 53 | 5,899 | 326 | 4 yrs | 48,607 | Heroku |
| usciss.us | 1.4 | 2,261 | 18 | 47,025 | Heroku |