Load Balancers & Reverse Proxies Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)
Envoy runs on 111,282 live websites, 36.4% of the 305,816 sites we detect using load balancers & reverse proxies. Below, all 12 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.
Data updated Aug 19, 2026
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Azure Front Door
Azure Front Door answers for 48,175 domains in our live crawl, fourth of the 12 technologies in Load Balancers & Proxies on 15.75% share.
Live websites48,175Market Share15.75%Top CountryUnited States
Load Balancers & Proxies Market Data
Adoption and 30-day momentum across 12 load balancers & proxies technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.
Biggest Movers
Market Share
- EEnvoy36.39%
- AAmazon ALB22.81%
- GGoogle Cloud Load Balancing16.61%
- Azure Front Door15.75%
- AAmazon ELB5.33%
- AApache APISIX1.53%
- …Others1.6%
Load Balancers & Proxies
FAQ.
What is Load Balancers & Proxies software?
Load Balancers & Proxies covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 12 load balancers & proxies tools in this category on 305,816 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.
What are the most popular load balancers & proxies platforms?
Across 305,816 detected sites, the most widely found load balancers & proxies tools are: Envoy (36.39% share, 111,282 sites), Amazon ALB (22.81% share, 69,748 sites), Google Cloud Load Balancing (16.61% share, 50,798 sites). Others we see regularly include Azure Front Door and Amazon ELB.
Which load balancers & proxies tool has the largest market share?
Envoy is the most widely detected load balancers & proxies tool at 36.39% share, on 111,282 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to various companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.
Which industries use load balancers & proxies software the most?
The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Retail, Financial Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, Hospitals and Health Care. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.
Which countries have the highest adoption of load balancers & proxies tools?
We detect the most load balancers & proxies sites in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.
How do I choose the right load balancers & proxies platform?
Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. Envoy, Amazon ALB and Google Cloud Load Balancing are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.
How many companies use load balancers & proxies software?
TechnologyChecker.io detects load balancers & proxies tools on 305,816 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.
What is the source of this data?
TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.