Apache Traffic Server vs. PFLB vs. Python vs. Squid Comparison Chart

PFLB is an AI-powered load testing platform where you can simulate massive traffic to your websites, and applications. It’s easy to use and super helpful for teams that want to ensure their product is ready to scale. Features: Realistic testing with scenario-based traffic simulation. Importing your production load profile with Google Analytics integration. Easy scripting with an intuitive no-code editor. Executing advanced JMeter scenarios at scale. Resolving bottlenecks with AI-powered performance insights. Discovering load testing results with Grafana dashboards. Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, gRPC, JDBC, JMS, AMQP, MQTT, Kafka.

Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. It runs on most available operating systems, including Windows, and is licensed under the GNU GPL. Squid is used by hundreds of Internet Providers worldwide to provide their users with the best possible web access. Squid optimizes the data flow between client and server to improve performance and caches frequently-used content to save bandwidth. Squid can also route content requests to servers in a wide variety of ways to build cache server hierarchies that optimize network throughput. Thousands of websites around the Internet use Squid to drastically increase their content delivery. Squid can reduce your server load and improve delivery speeds to clients.