Google PageSpeed vs W3 Total Cache

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

Top sites by authority

Google PageSpeed · W3 Total Cache · 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 · W3 Total Cache · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 8,553

38,372

Germany 6,244

15,327

Italy 3,670

17,403

India 4,842

13,633

United Kingdom 4,513

13,328

Japan 8,488

8,149

Brazil 5,096

11,074

France 3,565

11,958

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 W3 Total Cache sites