🆚 Squid vs. WP Rocket
- 📈 WP Rocket is much more popular than Squid.
- 🌍 WP Rocket is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Squid is particularly popular in Japan.
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About
Squid is a caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.
WP Rocket is a caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of 
WordPress websites.
It implements several caching layers such as page caching (static 
HTML), mobile caching (a separate set of cache files for mobile devices), and browser caching (for repeated visits) with automatic preload, Gzip compression, minification of 
CSS/JS/HTML, lazy loading of images and iframes, CDN integration, and control over the WordPress Heartbeat API.
Headquarters
Pricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Japan in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in France in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Netherlands in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Iran in the Caching category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Envoy
Apache Traffic Server
WP Super Cache🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.