Cowboy vs Kestrel

Kestrel is used by more websites in our catalog: 217 use Cowboy and 952 use Kestrel.

Kestrel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cowboy: 2, Kestrel: 23).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cowboy went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Kestrel went from 0.10% to 0.11%. Kestrel is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Cowboy and Kestrel.

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.