🆚 mod_gzip vs. mod_ssl
mod_ssl is much more popular than mod_gzip.- mod_ssl is more popular in all countries.
mod_gzip is particularly popular in the United States.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
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_ssl provides SSL v3 and TLS v1.x support for the Apache HTTP Server.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Web Server Modules › Rank #19
Web Server Modules › Rank #6
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The mod_ssl web server module is 22 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_ssl is more popular than mod_gzip in all countries.
Japan
United States
Korea
Hong Kong
Russia
Germany
Czechia
Italy
France
Taiwan
Awards
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Czechia in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Japan in the Web Server Modules category.
- ⭐ 6th 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_ssl is more popular than mod_gzip in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Public Information
General News
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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.