🆚 HAProxy vs. Squid
- 📈 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.
HAProxy
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About
HAProxy is an open-source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
It provides multiple load-balancing algorithms, TLS/SSL termination and certificate management, 
Lua scripting, a runtime API, hitless reloads, and built-in metrics for Prometheus.
Squid is an open-source caching proxy server that is most commonly used as a forward proxy to cache outbound internet requests, reduce bandwidth, and improve access times.
It supports proxy hierarchies and mesh caching using the Internet Cache Protocol, DNS caching, negative caching of failed requests, access control lists for traffic filtering, transparent proxying, and full request logging.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Canada in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in the United States 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.