Envoy
Envoy is a high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures.
It provides advanced L4/L7 load balancing, HTTP/2 and gRPC proxying, service discovery integration, observability with distributed tracing and rich metrics, and dynamic configuration via xDS APIs.
According to our data, Envoy is the 6th most popular load balancer on the web.
It has 6.1% of the load balancer market share and is detected on 0.4% of all websites.
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Envoy is available for free.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Load Balancers
- Rank: 6
- Market share: 6.1%
- Caching
- Rank: 11
- Market share: 1%
🏆 Envoy Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Israel in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Mexico in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Korea in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ukraine in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Lithuania in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Brazil in the Load Balancers category.
⚡ Sites Using Envoy
We have data on 12,986 websites that use the Envoy load balancer. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Envoy is 
x.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | x.com |
#12 | English | |
| 2 |  pinterest.com |
#15 | English | |
| 3 | #19 | United States | English | |
| 4 |  spotify.com |
#22 | Sweden | English |
| 5 | #34 | American English | ||
| 6 |  dropbox.com |
#35 | United States | English |
| 7 | #41 | American English | ||
| 8 |  nytimes.com |
#50 | United States | English |
| 9 | #65 | United Kingdom | British English | |
| 10 | #68 | United States | English | |
| 11 |  scribd.com |
#70 | United States | English |
| 12 | #82 | English | ||
| 13 |  ebay.com |
#92 | United States | American English |
| 14 | snapchat.com | #98 | American English | |
| 15 |  uber.com |
#117 | United States | English |
| 16 | #123 | Russia | Russian | |
| 17 |  yelp.com |
#148 | United States | American English |
| 18 | #154 | Czech Republic | Czech | |
| 19 | #160 | Korean | ||
| 20 | #162 | American English |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Envoy:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Envoy are from the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
- United States 24.4%
- Netherlands 6.4%
- United Kingdom 6%
- Germany 4.9%
- Brazil 4.7%
- Canada 4.4%
- Japan 4.2%
- France 3.2%
- Australia 3%
- Other 38.8%
Most Envoy users speak English, Spanish, or German.
- English 63.9%
- Spanish 4.8%
- German 4.4%
- Portuguese 3.9%
- Dutch 3.7%
- Japanese 3.2%
- French 3.1%
- Chinese 1.7%
- Russian 1.3%
- Other 10%
The Envoy load balancer is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 49.3%
- .org 4.8%
- .nl 3.3%
- .com.br 2.9%
- .de 2.3%
- .co.uk 2%
- .net 1.9%
- .ca 1.8%
- .no 1.4%
- Other 30.3%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Envoy include business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 15.2%
- Online Shopping 12.9%
- Marketing/Merchandising 10%
- Travel 5.7%
- Internet Services 5.3%
- Finance/Banking 4.5%
- Education/Reference 4%
- General News 4%
- Entertainment 3.9%
- Other 34.5%
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Google Cloud Load Balancer💬 Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Envoy?
Envoy is owned by the Linux Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Is Envoy free?
Yes, it is a free load balancer.
Moreover, it is an open source solution, and you can find its source code on 
GitHub.
Which country uses Envoy the most?
The majority of Envoy users are from the United States.
Who uses Envoy?
According to our data, Envoy is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as x.com, pinterest.com, and netflix.com.
Is Envoy used on government websites?
In total, we found Envoy on 13 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Envoy?
Yes. Overall, we know of 39 academic websites in the United States that use Envoy.
How does Envoy compare to the competition?
Envoy is a moderately popular load balancer, ranking ahead of 12 other load balancers we track.
What are the alternatives to Envoy?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Envoy may include HAProxy, Varnish, and 
Apache Traffic Server.