🆚 Google Front End vs. OpenResty

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web server
Web server

About

Google Front End (GFE) is a reverse-proxy frontend service provided by Google Cloud.

OpenResty is an Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server.

It embeds Lua, a lightweight scripting language, into Nginx's event-driven architecture, enabling high-performance dynamic request handling, asynchronous I/O, API and microservice development, traffic control, caching, authentication, and logging.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Millbrae, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Web Servers › Rank #13
Web Servers › Rank #5

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The OpenResty web server is 19 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.

OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea, while Google Front End is more popular in New Caledonia.
United States
China
Korea
Netherlands
Russia
Slovakia
Germany
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Japan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

OpenResty is more popular than Google Front End in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
General News
Travel
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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Rank
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#179
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#294
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