Google Front End

Google, Mountain View, California, United States

Google Front End (GFE) is Google's globally distributed reverse proxy that accepts client connections at the network edge and routes requests to Google services.

It provides TLS termination, request routing, load balancing, and protection against denial-of-service attacks, and is available only as the underlying infrastructure for Google Cloud Load Balancing and other Google services.

According to our data, Google Front End is the 10th most popular load balancer on the web.
It has 1.8% of the load balancer market share and is detected on 0.1% of all websites.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

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📊 Rankings and Market Share

🏆 Google Front End Awards

⚡ Sites Using Google Front End

We have data on 4,302 websites that use the Google Front End load balancer. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using Google Front End is blog.google.

#WebsiteRankCountryLanguage
1 blog.google #54 American English
2 arxiv.org #155 United States English
3 developers.google.com United States English
4 newsweek.com #251 United States English
5 disneyplus.com #324 English
6 mayoclinic.org #391 United States English
7 material.io #1,043 United States English
8 sky.com #1,053 United Kingdom British English
9 avast.com #1,122 United States American English
10 waze.com #1,126 United States English
11 puma.com #1,434 United States English
12 virginmedia.com #1,437 United Kingdom English
13 apis.google.com United States English
14 developer.mozilla.org United States American English
15 justwatch.com #1,547 Germany English
16 thekitchn.com #1,750 United States English
17 snap.com #1,852 English
18 dn.se #2,013 Sweden Swedish
19 expressen.se #2,110 Sweden Swedish
20 proteantech.in #2,260 India English

📈 Usage Statistics

Most of the sites that use Google Front End:

Most of the sites using Google Front End are from the United States, Japan, and Sweden.

  • United States 21%
  • Japan 10.9%
  • Sweden 6%
  • France 4.6%
  • India 3.9%
  • Taiwan 3.7%
  • United Kingdom 3.7%
  • Germany 3.6%
  • Brazil 3.5%
  • Other 39.1%

Most Google Front End users speak English, Japanese, or Spanish.

  • English 66.9%
  • Japanese 6.6%
  • Spanish 3.9%
  • Swedish 3.5%
  • French 3%
  • Chinese 3%
  • German 2.5%
  • Portuguese 2.1%
  • Dutch 1.2%
  • Other 7.3%

The Google Front End load balancer is especially popular on .com top-level domains.

  • .com 48.8%
  • .org 3.5%
  • .se 3%
  • .net 2.6%
  • .io 2.3%
  • .jp 2%
  • .com.br 1.8%
  • .co 1.4%
  • .fi 1.1%
  • Other 33.5%

The primary market segments for websites utilizing Google Front End include business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping.

  • Business 18.1%
  • Marketing/Merchandising 8.9%
  • Online Shopping 7.3%
  • Internet Services 6.2%
  • Entertainment 5.7%
  • General News 5.3%
  • Education/Reference 4.5%
  • Travel 4.4%
  • Software/Hardware 4.4%
  • Other 35.2%

🕵️ Similar Technologies

These are some of the best Google Front End alternatives.

RankName
1
Varnish
Stockholm, Sweden

An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

FreeOpen source$1,500+/year
2
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
6
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
11
Heroku Vegur
San Francisco, California, United States

Open-source proxy and load balancing software.

FreeOpen source
14
HAProxy
Newton, Massachusetts, United States

A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications.

FreeOpen source$$$

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💬 Frequently Asked Questions

What is the company behind Google Front End?

Google Front End is owned by Google LLC, headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States.

Which country uses Google Front End the most?

The majority of Google Front End users are from the United States.

Who uses Google Front End?

According to our data, Google Front End is used on thousands of sites, including blog.google, arxiv.org, and developers.google.com.

How does Google Front End stack up against the competition?

Google Front End is a moderately popular load balancer, ranking ahead of 9 other load balancers we track.

What are the alternatives to Google Front End?

Alternatives and possible competitors to Google Front End may include Google Cloud Load Balancing, Envoy, and Heroku Vegur.

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