🆚 Google Front End vs. OpenResty
- 📈 OpenResty is much more popular than Google Front End.
- 🌎 OpenResty is more popular in the United States, China, and Korea.
- 🌍 Google Front End is more popular in New Caledonia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
OpenRestyType
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
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #12
Web Servers › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The OpenResty web server is 18 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
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
Japan
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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Samoa in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Slovakia in the Web Servers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Seychelles in the Web Servers category.
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
Travel
General News
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tengine🗃️ About This Data
- 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.