🆚 Nginx vs. Squid
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Squid.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Squid is particularly popular in Japan.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
NginxType
Web server
Caching
About
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage.
It supports serving static files, reverse proxying, load balancing for HTTP, TCP, and UDP traffic, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, 
HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, 
WebSocket proxying, response compression, and zero-downtime configuration reloads.
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Westminster, Colorado, United States
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition $3,500+/year
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Nginx web server is 3,247 times more popular than Squid.
Total websites
Market share
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Nginx is more popular than Squid in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Web Servers category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Nginx is more popular than Squid in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Public Information
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Caddy
Kestrel
Oracle iPlanet Web Server
Google Cloud Load Balancing
Envoy
Apache Traffic Server
F5, Inc. 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.