Cowboy vs OpenResty

OpenResty is used by more websites in our catalog: 217 use Cowboy and 4,190 use OpenResty.

OpenResty sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Cowboy: 2, OpenResty: 30).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Cowboy went from 0.03% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while OpenResty went from 0.55% to 0.48%. Cowboy is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Cowboy and OpenResty.

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.