🆚 Google Front End vs. Static File Front End
- 📈 Google Front End is much more popular than Static File Front End.
- 🌎 Google Front End is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Sweden.
- 🌍 Static File Front End is more popular in Ireland, Kazakhstan, and Moldova.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Static File Front EndType
Web server
Web server
About
Google Front End (GFE) is a reverse-proxy frontend service provided by 
Google Cloud.
Static File Front End (SFFE) is a proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
Categories
Web Servers › Rank #12
Web Servers › Rank #23
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Google Front End web server is 11 times more popular than Static File Front End.
Total websites
Market share
Web Servers
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 Static File Front End is more popular in Ireland, Kazakhstan, and Moldova.
United States
Japan
Sweden
France
India
Germany
Taiwan
Brazil
United Kingdom
Netherlands
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.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Ireland in the Web Servers category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in the United States in the Web Servers 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 Static File Front End is more commonly used on search engines sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.