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 10,235

94,977

Germany 7,591

36,724

France 4,727

32,486

United Kingdom 5,372

31,590

India 5,700

29,464

Canada 4,408

25,078

Netherlands 3,124

25,182

Japan 9,933

18,257

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, Jun 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