🆚 mod_fastcgi vs. mod_gzip
- 📈 mod_fastcgi is twice as popular as mod_gzip.
- 🌎 mod_fastcgi is more popular in the United States, Spain, and Germany.
- 🌍 mod_gzip is more popular in Taiwan.
Type
About
mod_fastcgi is a third-party module for the Apache web server that enables the FastCGI protocol for communicating with applications that generate dynamic content for web pages.
mod_gzip is an
Apache HTTP Server module that compresses web content with
Gzip encoding to reduce page size and bandwidth usage.
It operates as an external extension module for Apache 1.3 and 2.x, supports dynamic on-the-fly compression for HTML,
CSS, and
JavaScript content, and works with standard zlib compression libraries.
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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
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Finland in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Spain in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Germany in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Taiwan in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 3,532,692 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.