🆚 Google Cloud Load Balancing vs. Squid
- 📈 Google Cloud Load Balancing is much more popular than Squid.
- 🌍 Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Squid is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Load balancer
Caching
About
Google Cloud Load Balancing is a managed load balancing service that distributes application traffic across virtual machines and containers on Google Cloud.
It supports global and regional load balancing, a single anycast IP address for worldwide deployments, automatic scaling without pre-warming, integration with Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor, and uses
Envoy and
Google Front End proxies to route and manage traffic.
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
Forwarding rules
First 5 $0.025/unit/hour
Additional $0.01/rule/hour
Inbound data $0.008+/GB
Outbound data $0.008+/GB
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google Cloud Load Balancing is 143 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular than Squid in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
British Virgin Islands
Canada
France
Brazil
Australia
Italy
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the British Virgin Islands in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Cloud Load Balancing is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Sports
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
General News
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 3,602,840 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

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