⚡ Load Balancers in New Zealand

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.

New Zealand is an Oceanian country with a population of over 5.1 million people.

According to our statistics, load balancers are used on 8.6% of websites from New Zealand.

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Varnish with a share of 25.1%, followed by Google Cloud Load Balancer with 21% and AWS Elastic Load Balancer with 18%.

🚀 Highlights

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

✨ Best Load Balancers

Below is a more detailed list of 16 load balancers used on sites from New Zealand, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year	25.1%
2	Google Cloud Load Balancer Mountain View, California, United States Distributes user traffic across virtual machine instances in the same region.	21%
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$$$	18%
4	Application Request Routing Redmond, Washington, United States A module for Internet Information Server that can load-balance between multiple servers in a server farm.	17.6%
5	F5 BIG-IP Seattle, Washington, United States An enterprise-grade application delivery controller and full reverse proxy platform for managing, securing, and optimizing web and API traffic. $3,200+/year	9%
6	Azure Front Door Redmond, Washington, United States A cloud content delivery network service that offers Layer 7 load-balancing capabilities. $35+/month	7%
7	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	6.2%
8	Azure Application Gateway Redmond, Washington, United States A managed web traffic load balancer and full reverse proxy that enables scalable, highly available, and secure web application delivery on Azure. $0.0255+/hour	2.3%
9	Sucuri CloudProxy Tempe, Arizona, United States A website application firewall that stops bad actors, speeds up load times, and increases website availability.	0.8%
10	Heroku Vegur San Francisco, California, United States Open-source proxy and load balancing software. FreeOpen source	0.8%
11	NetScaler Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States An application delivery and security platform that provides high-performance load balancing, application delivery, and security solutions. $11,000+/year	0.6%
12	Ivanti vADC South Jordan, Utah, United States A software-based application delivery controller solution that delivers applications with predictable performance and strong multi-layered security and includes Virtual Traffic Manager, Services Director and Web Application Firewall. $$$	0.3%
13	Barracuda Load Balancer ADC Campbell, California, United States A unified high-performance platform that helps organizations achieve their availability, acceleration, application control, and application security objectives. $7,000+/year	0.3%
14	Apache Traffic Server Wilmington, Delaware, United States A fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network. FreeOpen source	0.08%
15	Squid Westminster, Colorado, United States A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. FreeOpen source	0.08%
16	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	0.08%

👉 See Also

🌎 Load Balancers in other countries
- Canada
- United Kingdom

Data is based on the analysis of 13,984 websites from New Zealand.
Statistics were last calculated on April 2, 2026.
For details, see our methodology and disclaimer.