Kestrel vs LiteSpeed

LiteSpeed is used by more websites in our catalog: 952 use Kestrel and 43,161 use LiteSpeed.

Kestrel sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (Kestrel: 23, LiteSpeed: 15).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, Kestrel went from 0.10% to 0.11% of all tracked sites, while LiteSpeed went from 5.4% to 4.9%. Kestrel is gaining ground faster in our index.

0 websites in our catalog use both Kestrel and LiteSpeed.

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.