🆚 Apache Traffic Server vs. Squid

Type

Caching solution
Caching solution

About

Apache Traffic Server is an open-source high-performance HTTP caching proxy server that serves cached content at the network edge to reduce origin load and improve response times.

It provides an event-driven core with asynchronous native DNS for high concurrency, and supports custom plugins written in C/C++ or Lua for modifying headers, inspecting caches, handling Edge Side Includes, and implementing custom caching algorithms.

Squid is an open-source caching proxy server that is most commonly used as a forward proxy to cache outbound internet requests, reduce bandwidth, and improve access times.

It supports proxy hierarchies and mesh caching using the Internet Cache Protocol, DNS caching, negative caching of failed requests, access control lists for traffic filtering, transparent proxying, and full request logging.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

Caching › Rank #20
Caching › Rank #27
Load Balancers › Rank #14
Load Balancers › Rank #21

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Apache Traffic Server caching solution is 5 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites

Market share

Caching
Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Apache Traffic Server is more popular in the Czech Republic, the United States, and Slovakia, while Squid is more popular in Japan, Germany, and France.
Czech Republic
United States
Japan
Germany
Slovakia
United Kingdom
China
Italy
France
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Apache Traffic Server is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Public Information
Portal Sites
Travel
Online Shopping

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,097
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Name
Rank
p-world.co.jp
#3,395
#10,647
#10,829
#21,806
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See also

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