Google PageSpeed vs Varnish

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Google PageSpeed · Varnish · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Google PageSpeed · Varnish · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 8,553

85,715

Germany 6,244

32,333

United Kingdom 4,513

28,057

India 4,842

26,370

France 3,565

27,422

Canada 3,761

22,275

Netherlands 2,618

21,890

Japan 8,488

15,679

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Google PageSpeed sites · All Varnish sites