🆚 Envoy vs. Squid
- 📈 Envoy is much more popular than Squid.
- 🌍 Envoy is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Squid is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
EnvoyType
Load balancer
Caching
About
Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.
It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Envoy load balancer is 44 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Envoy is more popular than Squid in all countries.
United States
Netherlands
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Canada
France
Australia
China
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Envoy is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Internet Services
Finance/Banking
Education/Reference
General News
Entertainment
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.