🆚 Google Front End vs. HAProxy
- 📈 Google Front End is three times more popular than HAProxy.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France.
- 🌍 HAProxy is more popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Denmark.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Load balancer
Load balancer
About
Google Front End (GFE) is Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services.
It provides TLS termination, request routing, load balancing, and protection against denial-of-service attacks, and is available only as the underlying infrastructure for 
Google Cloud Load Balancing and other Google services.
HAProxy is a high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Not available separately
Free version ✔️ Open source
HAProxy Enterprise Custom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Front End load balancer is 3 times more popular than HAProxy.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
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 France, while HAProxy is more popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, and Denmark.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Sweden
Canada
India
Taiwan
Brazil
Awards
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Taiwan in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Sweden in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Finland in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in India in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Canada in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers 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 HAProxy is more commonly used on real estate, fashion and beauty, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
General News
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
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 3,602,840 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.