🆚 Caddy vs. Google Web Server
- 📈 Caddy is much more popular than Google Web Server.
- 🌎 Caddy is more popular in Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Google Web Server is more popular in Turkey, Bolivia, and Guatemala.
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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 Web Server (GWS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Romania in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Bulgaria in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Austria in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Turkey in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,816,780 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

