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Rust crates · category · data Oct 24, 2026
Web programming crates by real downloads
crates.io describes this category as: “Crates to create applications for the web.” Below are the 10 crates in it among the 300 most-downloaded crates, ranked by real downloads (quiet-day baseline) instead of raw count.
Short answerBy steady daily use, http leads Web programming with 3,277,345 real downloads a day (widely used and steady). 7 of the 10 have 1,000+ dependents; 1 have shipped nothing in 2+ years. Release spikes barely matter here: the median crate got 1.1% of its downloads within 2 days of a release.
10 crates
| Compare | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| httpWidely used | 3,277,345 | 8,511 | 3mo | +0% | 1.2B | |
| http-bodyWidely used | 2,784,335 | 1,124 | 3mo | +1% | 994M | |
| urlFoundational | 2,520,673 | 16,906 | 10mo | +0% | 986M | |
| h2Established | 2,290,495 | 296 | 18d | -1% | 911M | |
| httparseEstablished | 2,183,298 | 609 | 20mo | +3% | 82M | |
| tower-httpWidely used | 2,044,149 | 3,782 | 54d | +6% | 551M | |
| http-body-utilWidely used | 1,970,860 | 3,957 | 2mo | +5% | 552M | |
| serde_urlencodedWidely used | 1,715,895 | 1,342 | 4.8y | +6% | 64M | |
| axum-coreEstablished | 1,571,431 | 191 | 10mo | -2% | 536M | |
| encoding_rsWidely used | 1,414,714 | 1,424 | 30d | +8% | 594M |
Click a column to sort; press + to add a crate to a comparison. Real / day = median downloads on days with no release that day or the day before. Each crate's page shows its verdict and the 4 rules behind it. Why this method · this category on crates.io