⚡ Load Balancers in Iceland

Load balancers are software components or network devices that distribute incoming traffic across multiple backend servers, improving application availability, scalability, and fault tolerance by preventing any single server from becoming a bottleneck.

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

According to our statistics, load balancers are detected on 5.5% of websites from Iceland.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ 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 22.2%, followed by AWS Elastic Load Balancer with 22.2% and Varnish with 20.3%.

Application Request Routing 22.2%
AWS Elastic Load Balancer 22.2%
Varnish 20.3%
Google Cloud Load Balancer 17.7%
Envoy 7.6%
F5 BIG-IP 5.1%
Heroku Vegur 4.4%
Azure Front Door 3.8%
Azure Application Gateway 1.3%
HAProxy 0.6%
Squid 0.6%

🚀 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)
2. AWS Elastic Load Balancer ^(-1)
5. Envoy ^(-1)
7. Heroku Vegur ^(-3)
10. HAProxy ^(-3)
11. Squid ^(-6)

✨ 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.	22.2%
2	AWS Elastic Load Balancer Seattle, Washington, United States Automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Free$$$	22.2%
3	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year	20.3%
4	Google Cloud Load Balancer Mountain View, California, United States Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.	17.7%
5	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	7.6%
6	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	5.1%
7	Heroku Vegur San Francisco, California, United States Open-source proxy and load balancing software. FreeOpen source	4.4%
8	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	3.8%
9	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	1.3%
10	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$	0.6%
11	Squid Westminster, Colorado, United States A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. FreeOpen source	0.6%

🗃️ 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 2,875 websites from Iceland.
We currently track the presence of 18 load balancers across the web.
Of these, 11 were detected on websites from Iceland.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.