OpenResty on new websites

Nginx distribution with a built-in Lua scripting layer for high-performance dynamic web apps and gateways.

Sites using OpenResty
53,775
since Apr 2026
Last 30 days
0.9%
of new sites, to Oct 18
-0.1 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.8%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Server
#5
of 141 tools, all time
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website openresty.org

What we found

  1. About 1 in 120 websites that went live in the last 30 days use OpenResty (0.9%).[1]
  2. It is unusually common on .sk domains: 4.3% of the domains running it, against 0.18% of domains across new sites.

Share of new sites using OpenResty

0.0% 0.5% 1.0% 1.5% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use OpenResty, since 10 September.

Who uses OpenResty

Kind of site 11,729 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
E-commerce 1,886 16.1%
Content 1,691 14.4%
Health 1,678 14.3%
Productivity 1,127 9.6%
Finance 972 8.3%
Developer Tools 937 8.0%
Education 762 6.5%
Games 691 5.9%
Social 559 4.8%
Marketing 456 3.9%
AI 396 3.4%
Design 240 2.1%
Country[2] 12,310 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
US 3,309 26.9%
Slovakia 2,358 19.2%
South Korea 2,228 18.1%
France 598 4.9%
Vietnam 577 4.7%
India 474 3.9%
UK 416 3.4%
China 315 2.6%
Sweden 261 2.1%
Canada 234 1.9%
Germany 234 1.9%
Czechia 172 1.4%
Domain ending 53,744 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 34,986 65.1%
.sk 2,622 4.9%
.online 1,679 3.1%
.org 1,653 3.1%
.net 1,592 3.0%
.store 1,281 2.4%
.ink 1,044 1.9%
.site 912 1.7%
.in 655 1.2%
.fr 584 1.1%
.app 583 1.1%
.xyz 575 1.1%
Green hosting[3] 419 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
OpenResty 30%
All new sites 47%

Server on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category Bar
1 – nginx 9.6% 37.4%
2 – LiteSpeed Web Server 6.6% 25.9%
3 – Apache 4.7% 18.3%
4 – Caddy 3.0% 11.7%
5 – OpenResty 0.9% 3.5%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Server tool. All 141 in Server

Often used with OpenResty

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
BusinessIdentity.LLC 10,482 83x
BusinessIdentity.LLC 10,264 83x
Postal 10,192 83x
Fluent Forms 7,822 47x
jQuery 20,921 2.8x

Tools that turn up far more often on OpenResty sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recently launched products built on OpenResty

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
  3. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.

How this page is made

FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards OpenResty when we detect OpenResty on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites

Something not look right? If a technology shown here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we'll review it.