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 *Web Performance.*
 
-- [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/) - Software based load Balancing, SSL offloading and performance optimization, compression, and general web routing.
+- [HAProxy](http://www.haproxy.org/) - Very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
 - [Traefik](https://traefik.io/) - Traefik is a leading modern reverse proxy and load balancer.
 - [Varnish](https://www.varnish-cache.org/) - HTTP based web application accelerator focusing on optimizing caching and compression.