🆚 ESI vs. Rack

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Standard
Backend framework

About

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.

Rack is a minimal, modular interface and invocation convention that operates between Ruby web servers and web applications to standardize how HTTP requests and responses are exchanged.

It translates raw HTTP requests into a CGI-style environment defined by RFC 3875, supports middleware stacking for step-by-step request and response processing, and is implemented by servers such as Phusion Passenger, Puma, Unicorn, and Thin.

Headquarters

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Standards › Rank #47
Standards › Rank #37
Backend Frameworks › Rank #21

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Rack backend framework is 4 times more popular than ESI.
Total websites

Market share

Standards

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Rack is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan, while ESI is more popular in France, Finland, and the Netherlands.
United States
Japan
Taiwan
France
Germany
Canada
Australia
United Kingdom
Finland
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Rack is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while ESI is more commonly used on general news, motor vehicles, and portal sites sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
General News
Internet Services
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Sports
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
#451
#3,341
#4,352
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Rank
#2,299
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See also

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