🆚 Google Front End vs. Heroku Vegur
- 📈 Google Front End is noticeably more popular than Heroku Vegur.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and France.
- 🌍 Heroku Vegur is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Heroku VegurType
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.
Heroku Vegur is open-source proxy and load balancing software.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
GitHubPricing
Not available separately
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Load Balancers › Rank #10
Load Balancers › Rank #11
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Front End load balancer is 1.7 times more popular than Heroku Vegur.
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 Heroku Vegur is more popular in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Sweden
Germany
Brazil
Netherlands
Australia
India
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 the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Australia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in France 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 Internet services, while Heroku Vegur is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, art, culture and heritage, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Education/Reference
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.