🆚 Application Request Routing vs. Google Front End
- 📈 Application Request Routing is four times more popular than Google Front End.
- 🌎 Application Request Routing is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Google Front End is more popular in Japan, Taiwan, and Pakistan.
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Application Request Routing is a module for Internet Information Server (IIS) that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.
Google Front End (GFE) is Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services.
It provides TLS termination, request routing, load balancing, and protection against denial-of-service attacks, and is available only as the underlying infrastructure for Google Cloud Load Balancing and other Google services.
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Popularity
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Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Slovenia 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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Finland in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,602,840 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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