⚡ Load Balancers in Iceland

A load balancer is a software program or device that distributes network traffic across a number of "backend" servers, providing improved scaling and network resilience.

Iceland is a Northern European island country with a population of over 380 thousand people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are used on 5.4% of websites from Iceland.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top load balancers in Iceland in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Application Request Routing with a share of 23.5%, followed by Varnish with 21.5% and AWS Elastic Load Balancer with 20.1%.

Application Request Routing 23.5%
Varnish 21.5%
AWS Elastic Load Balancer 20.1%
Google Cloud Load Balancer 16.8%
Envoy 7.4%
Heroku Vegur 5.4%
F5 BIG-IP 4.7%
Azure Front Door 4%
HAProxy 0.7%
Squid 0.7%
Azure Application Gateway 0.7%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top load balancers that are more popular in Iceland than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. Application Request Routing ^(-4)
5. Envoy ^(-1)
6. Heroku Vegur ^(-4)
9. HAProxy ^(-4)
10. Squid ^(-7)

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 11 load balancers used on sites from Iceland, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Application Request Routing Redmond, Washington, United States A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.	23.5%
2	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year	21.5%
3	AWS Elastic Load Balancer Seattle, Washington, United States Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Free$$$	20.1%
4	Google Cloud Load Balancer Mountain View, California, United States Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.	16.8%
5	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	7.4%
6	Heroku Vegur San Francisco, California, United States Open-source proxy and load balancing software. FreeOpen source	5.4%
7	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	4.7%
8	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	4%
9	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$	0.7%
10	Squid Westminster, Colorado, United States A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. FreeOpen source	0.7%
11	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	0.7%

Data is based on the analysis of 2,774 websites from Iceland.
Statistics were last calculated on March 21, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.