🆚 Google Front End vs. Google Host Server
- 📈 Google Host Server is slightly more popular than Google Front End.
- 🌎 Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, India, and Brazil.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google Host ServerType
Web server
Web server
About
Google Front End (GFE) is a reverse-proxy frontend service provided by 
Google Cloud.
Google Host Server (GHS) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #12
Web Servers › Rank #10
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google Host Server technology is 1.2 times more popular than Google Front End.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google Host Server is more popular in Indonesia, India, and Brazil, while Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France.
United States
Indonesia
India
Japan
Brazil
United Kingdom
France
Sweden
Germany
Taiwan
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Taiwan in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Sweden in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Finland in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in South Africa in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Indonesia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Bangladesh in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in India in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Greece in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Host Server is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, education and reference, and sports, while Google Front End is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and entertainment sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Internet Services
General News
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Travel
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.