🆚 mod_gzip vs. PageSpeed
PageSpeed is much more popular than mod_gzip.- PageSpeed 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
Performance optimization technology
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.
An open-source web server module for rewriting web pages to reduce latency and bandwidth, available for Apache and 
Nginx.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
GitHubPricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
PageSpeed performance optimization technology is 204 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.
PageSpeed is more popular than mod_gzip in all countries.
Japan
Ukraine
United States
Germany
Poland
Canada
Russia
Brazil
United Kingdom
Spain
Awards
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Ukraine in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Poland in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Croatia in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥈 Second 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.
PageSpeed is more popular than mod_gzip in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Motor Vehicles
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google company profile🗃️ 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.