🆚 HAProxy vs. Squid
Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *- 📈 HAProxy is four times more popular than Squid.
- 🌎 HAProxy is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Squid is more popular in Japan, China, and Romania.
Type
Load balancer
Caching solution
About
HAProxy is a high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications.
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
Headquarters
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
HAProxy EnterpriseCustom
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The HAProxy load balancer is 4 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites
Market share
Load Balancers
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
HAProxy is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Squid is more popular in Japan, China, and Romania.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
France
Italy
Poland
Spain
Austria
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Poland in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Canada in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Spain in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
HAProxy is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and software and hardware, while Squid is more commonly used on portal sites sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Real Estate
Online Shopping
Fashion/Beauty
Marketing/Merchandising
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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