Squid
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.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
At a glance
Squid quick facts
- Health score
- 10/100 STALE
- Stars
- Not measured
- Last commit
- Not measured
- Latest release
- Not measured
- Licence
- GPL-2.0
Top alternatives to Squid
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Squid scores 10/100, #9 of 9 in Proxy: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 0.0 / 20
0 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- unknown
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 9 tools in Proxy by health , just below Privoxy (#8) .
Details
Squid vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Squid (Proxy), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sish | 94 | 4.8k | MIT | 3 days ago |
| GitProxy | 90 | 262 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| g3proxy | 77 | 893 | Apache-2.0 | 5 days ago |
| Tinyproxy | 61 | 6k | GPL-2.0 | 1 month ago |
| socks5-proxy-server | 46 | 145 | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| Squid (this tool) | 10 | 0 | GPL-2.0 | unknown |