🆚 Application Request Routing vs. Varnish
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 Varnish is four times more popular than Application Request Routing.
- 🌎 Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
- 🌍 Application Request Routing is more popular in Ireland, the Czech Republic, and the United Arab Emirates.
Type
Load balancer
Caching solution
About
Application Request Routing is a module for Internet Information Server (IIS) that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.
Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Stockholm, Sweden
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Varnish caching solution is 4 times more popular than Application Request Routing.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Varnish is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Application Request Routing is more popular in Ireland, the Czech Republic, and the United Arab Emirates.
United States
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Netherlands
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Italy
Belgium
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Varnish is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while Application Request Routing is more commonly used on real estate sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
General News
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Sports
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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