🆚 CGI vs. ESI

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CGI
ESI

Type

Standard
Standard

About

Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is an interface specification that enables web servers to execute an external program to process HTTP requests.

Edge Side Includes (ESI) is a simple markup language used to define web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of web applications at the edge of the Internet.

Headquarters

Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

datatracker.ietf.org
w3.org/TR/esi-lang/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #25
Standards › Rank #47

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

CGI is 47 times more popular than ESI.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

CGI is more popular than ESI in all countries.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
Brazil
India
Turkey
Italy
Germany

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

CGI is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and online shopping, while ESI is more commonly used on motor vehicles sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Health
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,723
#2,731
#2,801
p-world.co.jp
#2,842
adultfriendfinder.com
#3,941
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Name
Rank
#451
#2,312
#2,616
#3,341
#6,334
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