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 8,756

85,897

Germany 6,473

32,786

United Kingdom 4,587

27,738

India 4,952

26,616

France 3,809

26,979

Canada 3,785

21,857

Japan 8,624

15,933

Netherlands 2,623

21,806

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, Aug 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