An Ask HN analysis: How Hacker News users host and build their sites

Suggestion: in the list of stats, after absolute numbers include a percentage, eg "Contains JavaScript: 567 (82%)".

And, agree, very interesting and fun! Thanks for compiling and presenting it!

edit: here they are!

    Contains JavaScript: 567 (81%)
    Github Pages: 146 (21%)
    Cloudflare: 141 (20%)
    Nginx: 114 (16%)
    Netlify: 83 (11%)
    Apache: 70 (10%)
    Vercel: 50 (7%)
    Bootstrap: 45 (6.5%)
    Gatsby: 30 (4.3%)
    Nextjs: 28 (4%)
    Amazon S3: 27 (3.9%)
    Wordpress: 22 (3.2%)
    Cloudfront: 17 (2.5%)
    Express: 16 (2.3%)
    PHP: 14 (2%)
    Caddy: 9 (1.3%)
    Litespeed: 8 (1.5%)
    Open Resty: 8 (1.5%)
    Google App Engine: 3 (0.43%)
    FlyIO: 3 (0.43%)
    MicorosftIIS: 3 (0.43%)
    Drupal: 2 (0.29%)
    Tailwind: 2 (0.29%)
    Lighttpd: 2 (0.29%)
    Godlighty: 1 (0.14%)
    Perl: 1 (0.14%)
    Neocities: 1 (0.14%)
    Asp.NET: 1 (0.14%)
    Gatsby Cloud: 1 (0.14%)
    Openbsd Httpd: 1 (0.14%)

I believe the "x-nananana: Batcache" header is included on some/all WordPress sites hosted by Automattic. "curl -I https://automattic.com/" returns it as well.

Source: I work there. :)

I'm surprised Caddy isn't more popular. I use it to serve my blog and reverse proxy a few services and it's completely hassle free. It's much better than nginx in that respect, especially if you include TLS termination.

wow, 21% of the personal websites are JavaScript-free.

As one who studies uses of JavaScript in an unintended manner, I believe that this to be the correct direction of future Web.

Heck, I even faked the HTTP version header to be an older Apache.

I'm not the morality police, but I hope you reached out to that poor soul running an old version of Apache.

This is very interesting, nice work!

Replit does hosting now for any language they support, so I’m surprised none of the sites were hosted there—- although I guess some could have been with Cloudflare in front..

Any chance you could release the raw data (including the URLs)? I am having trouble to get your typescript running.