🆚 Application Request Routing vs. Azure Front Door

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Application Request Routing is twice as popular as Azure Front Door.
🌎 Application Request Routing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Azure Front Door is more popular in Chile, Colombia, and Croatia.

Application Request Routing

Azure Front Door

Type

Load balancer

Content delivery network

About

Application Request Routing is a module for Internet Information Server (IIS) that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.

Azure Front Door is is a cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Website

iis.net #106,574

azure.microsoft.com

Pricing

Free version ❌

Standard$35/month

Premium$330/month

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.083/GB

10–50 TB$0.066/GB

50–150 TB$0.057/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Application Request Routing load balancer is 2.1 times more popular than Azure Front Door.

Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Application Request Routing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Azure Front Door is more popular in Chile, Colombia, and Croatia.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Australia

Sweden

Germany

Canada

Norway

Brazil

Denmark

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Slovenia in the Load Balancers category.
🥇 Most popular in Iceland in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
🥈 Second most popular in Norway in the Load Balancers category.

🥉 Third most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Malta in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Malta in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Application Request Routing is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Azure Front Door is more commonly used on general news and motor vehicles sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Online Shopping

Health

Finance/Banking

Software/Hardware

Travel

Internet Services

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO