🆚 Heroku Vegur vs. Squid

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
Heroku Vegur
Squid

Type

Load balancer
Caching solution

About

Heroku Vegur is open-source proxy and load balancing software.

Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States

Website

GitHub #13
squid-cache.org #148,842

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Load Balancers › Rank #10
Load Balancers › Rank #17
Caching › Rank #26

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Heroku Vegur load balancer is 8 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites

Market share

Load Balancers

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Heroku Vegur is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Squid is more popular in Japan, China, and Hong Kong.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Germany
France
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Netherlands
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Heroku Vegur is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Software/Hardware
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#3,593
#4,663
#5,555
#7,289
#7,732
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Name
Rank
p-world.co.jp
#2,842
#7,402
#12,243
#14,151
#18,359
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See also

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