🆚 Caddy vs. Google Servlet Engine

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Caddy is twice as popular as Google Servlet Engine.
🌍 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌎 Google Servlet Engine is more popular in the United States, India, and Indonesia.

Caddy

Google Servlet Engine

Type

Web server

About

Caddy is an open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols.

It supports automatic TLS management with providers such as Let's Encrypt and ZeroSSL, includes a built-in reverse proxy with load balancing, offers configuration through the human-readable Caddyfile or a JSON-based REST API, and features a modular architecture that can be extended with plugins.

Google Servlet Engine (GSE) is a fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.

Headquarters

Vienna, Austria

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

caddyserver.com #20,138

code.google.com

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Caddy web server is 1.9 times more popular than Google Servlet Engine.

Total websites

Market share

Web Servers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, while Google Servlet Engine is more popular in the United States, India, and Indonesia.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

France

India

Indonesia

Netherlands

Sweden

Spain

Brazil

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Bulgaria in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Belgium in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Romania in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Austria in the Web Servers category.

⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Greece in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in India in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
⭐ 6th most popular in Portugal in the Web Servers category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Caddy is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Google Servlet Engine is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and technical, business forums sites.

Blogs/Wiki

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Entertainment

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Travel

Sports

General News