🆚 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

rfc-editor.org #66,537
w3.org/TR/esi-lang/ #12,884

Categories

Standards › Rank #23
Standards › Rank #47

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

CGI is 51 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
Germany
Italy
France
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

CGI is more popular than ESI in all market segments.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
General News
Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#2,245
#2,723
#2,731
#2,801
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Name
Rank
#451
#1,981
#2,616
#3,341
#4,352
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See also

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