🆚 mod_fcgid vs. mod_gzip
- 📈 mod_fcgid is much more popular than mod_gzip.
- 🌍 mod_fcgid is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
mod_gzipType
Web server module
Web server module
About
mod_fcgid is a FastCGI module for the Apache HTTP Server.
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.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Web Server Modules › Rank #3
Web Server Modules › Rank #16
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The mod_fcgid web server module is 46 times more popular than mod_gzip.
Total websites
Market share
Web Server Modules
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
mod_fcgid is more popular than mod_gzip in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
Netherlands
China
Russia
Italy
Spain
Czech Republic
Denmark
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Denmark 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.
mod_fcgid is more popular than mod_gzip in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Travel
Pornography
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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mod_jk🗃️ 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.