🆚 mod_ssl vs. OpenSSL
- 📈 OpenSSL is much more popular than mod_ssl.
- 🌍 OpenSSL is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ mod_ssl is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
mod_ssl
OpenSSLType
Web server module
Web server module
About
mod_ssl provides SSL v3 and TLS v1.x support for the Apache HTTP Server.
OpenSSL is an open-source software library that provides strong encryption using the SSL and TLS protocols.
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Newark, Delaware, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Web Server Modules › Rank #6
Web Server Modules › Rank #1
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The OpenSSL web server module is 22 times more popular than mod_ssl.
Total websites
Market share
Web Server Modules
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
OpenSSL is more popular than mod_ssl in all countries.
Japan
United States
Korea
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Brazil
Awards
- 🥈 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 the Czech Republic 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.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Web Server Modules category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Web Server Modules category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
OpenSSL is more popular than mod_ssl in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Software/Hardware
Health
Public Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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.