🆚 Google Front End vs. Squid
- 📈 Google Front End is much more popular than Squid.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden.
- 🌍 Squid is more popular in China.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Load balancer
Caching
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.
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Pricing
Not available separately
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Front End load balancer is 13 times more popular than Squid.
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 Sweden, while Squid is more popular in China.
United States
Japan
Sweden
Germany
France
United Kingdom
India
Taiwan
Brazil
Netherlands
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 Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google Front End is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Education/Reference
Travel
Software/Hardware
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.