Websites Using Kestrel

Kestrel is a cross-platform web server built into ASP.NET Core as the default HTTP server implementation. It can be used standalone or behind a reverse proxy like IIS or Nginx, providing high-performance request handling for ASP.NET Core applications.

Categories: Web server

Official website: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/servers/kestrel

519 websites using Kestrel

Kestrel is ranked #10 of 94 in Web server by website adoption.

Web server alternatives ranked by popularity

Nginx — 73,178 websites
Apache HTTP Server — 43,010 websites
Apache — 41,887 websites
LiteSpeed — 11,970 websites
IIS — 7,588 websites
OpenResty — 4,300 websites
Caddy — 783 websites
Tengine — 698 websites
Google Web Server — 644 websites
Angie — 492 websites

Technologies commonly used with Kestrel

Open Graph — 40% co-occurrence
Google Analytics — 40% co-occurrence
Google Tag Manager — 39% co-occurrence
HSTS — 37% co-occurrence
Schema.org — 36% co-occurrence
Google Analytics 4 — 35% co-occurrence
Font Awesome — 34% co-occurrence
PWA — 33% co-occurrence

How WhatStack detects Kestrel

WhatStack detects Kestrel by analyzing HTTP headers, HTML source code, JavaScript globals, meta tags, cookies, DNS records, and ads.txt entries using signature-based pattern matching across 10 different analyzers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Kestrel?: Kestrel is a cross-platform web server built into ASP.NET Core as the default HTTP server implementation. It can be used standalone or behind a reverse proxy like IIS or Nginx, providing high-performance request handling for ASP.NET Core applications.
How many websites use Kestrel?: WhatStack has detected Kestrel on 519 websites in our database.
How do you detect Kestrel?: We analyze HTTP headers, HTML source, JavaScript globals, meta tags, cookies, DNS records, and ads.txt entries to identify Kestrel with high accuracy using signature-based pattern matching.