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 10,235

44,926

Germany 7,591

17,761

Italy 4,416

19,637

India 5,700

16,296

United Kingdom 5,372

15,377

Japan 9,933

9,840

France 4,727

14,359

Brazil 5,814

12,719

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 W3 Total Cache sites