🆚 Google Front End vs. Google Web Server
- 📈 Google Front End is much more popular than Google Web Server.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden.
- 🌍 Google Web Server is more popular in Ireland, Ecuador, and Iceland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google Web ServerType
Web server
Web server
About
Google Front End (GFE) is a reverse-proxy frontend service provided by 
Google Cloud.
Google Web Server (GWS) 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 #21
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Front End web server is 10 times more popular than Google Web Server.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden, while Google Web Server is more popular in Ireland, Ecuador, and Iceland.
United States
Japan
Sweden
France
Germany
India
Taiwan
Brazil
United Kingdom
Netherlands
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.
- 🔥 20th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Web Servers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Front End is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Google Web Server is more commonly used on search engines sites.
Search Engines
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Education/Reference
Travel
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.