⚡ Load Balancers in Norway

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.

Norway is a Northern European country with a population of over 5.5 million people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are detected on 19.4% of websites from Norway.

Statistics based on 18K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Varnish, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 58.1% share.
It is followed by Application Request Routing with 17.2% and Google Cloud Load Balancing with 10.5%.

Varnish 58.1%
Application Request Routing 17.2%
Google Cloud Load Balancing 10.5%
F5 BIG-IP 7.1%
Envoy 6.5%
Azure Front Door 4.5%
AWS Elastic Load Balancer 4.4%
Azure Application Gateway 3.4%
Google Front End 0.7%
Istio 0.6%
Sucuri CloudProxy 0.3%
Heroku Vegur 0.1%
HAProxy 0.1%
NetScaler 0.1%
Squid 0.08%

🚀 Highlights

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

2. Application Request Routing ^(-3)
5. Envoy ^(-1)
6. Azure Front Door ^(-2)
8. Azure Application Gateway ^(-1)
9. Google Front End ^(-1)
10. Istio ^(-1)
12. Heroku Vegur ^(-3)
13. HAProxy ^(-1)
14. NetScaler ^(-5)
15. Squid ^(-5)

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 18 load balancers used on sites from Norway, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source HTTP accelerator and reverse caching proxy that caches content from web servers to reduce load times, and supports native TLS termination and Kubernetes deployments. FreeOpen source$$$	58.1%
2	Application Request Routing Redmond, Washington, United States A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.	17.2%
3	Google Cloud Load Balancing Mountain View, California, United States A managed load balancing service that distributes application traffic across virtual machines and containers on Google Cloud. $0.025+/unit/hour	10.5%
4	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	7.1%
5	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open-source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	6.5%
6	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	4.5%
7	AWS Elastic Load Balancer Seattle, Washington, United States AWS Elastic Load Balancer automatically distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. Free$$$	4.4%
8	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	3.4%
9	Google Front End Mountain View, California, United States Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services. $$$	0.7%
10	Istio San Francisco, California, United States An open-source service mesh that secures, connects, and monitors services in Kubernetes, virtual machines, and multi-cloud environments. FreeOpen source	0.6%
11	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	0.3%
12	Heroku Vegur San Francisco, California, United States Open-source proxy and load balancing software. FreeOpen source	0.1%
13	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States An open-source load balancer and reverse proxy for TCP and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$	0.1%
14	NetScaler Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States An application delivery and security platform that provides high-performance load balancing, application delivery, and security solutions. $11,000+/year	0.1%
15	Squid Westminster, Colorado, United States An open-source caching proxy server that is most commonly used as a forward proxy to cache outbound internet requests, reduce bandwidth, and improve access times. FreeOpen source	0.08%
16	Ivanti vADC South Jordan, Utah, United States A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall. $$$	0.06%
17	Kong Gateway San Francisco, California, United States An API gateway that manages, secures, and routes API traffic using a cloud-native, platform-agnostic architecture. FreeOpen source$105+/month	0.06%
18	Ngrok San Francisco, California, United States A globally distributed reverse proxy platform that creates encrypted tunnels and consolidates load balancing, API gateway, and firewall capabilities for applications, APIs, and network services. Free$10+/month	0.03%

👉 See Also

🌎 Load Balancers in other countries

🗃️ 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 18,276 websites from Norway.
We currently track the presence of 23 load balancers across the web.
Of these, 18 were detected on websites from Norway.
Statistics were last calculated on September 18, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.