🆚 mod_gzip vs. mod_perl
- 📈 mod_perl is much more popular than mod_gzip.
- 🌍 mod_perl is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
mod_gzip
mod_perlType
Web server module
Web server module
About
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.
mod_perl is a module for the Apache web server that embeds a Perl interpreter into the server.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Web Server Modules › Rank #19
Web Server Modules › Rank #7
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The mod_perl web server module is 19 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_perl is more popular than mod_gzip in all countries.
United States
Japan
Russia
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Czech Republic
Canada
Chile
Austria
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Germany in the Web Server Modules category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
mod_perl is more popular than mod_gzip in all market segments.
Education/Reference
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Public Information
Blogs/Wiki
Technical/Business Forums
Sports
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 3,823,966 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.