Litespeed Cache vs Varnish

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

2,529,763
websites
vs
606,521
websites

Top sites by authority

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

Open Page Rank 9+ 9 114
Open Page Rank 8+ 149 1,519
Open Page Rank 7+ 662 5,479
Open Page Rank 6+ 1,683 9,482
Open Page Rank 5+ 3,948 14,788

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

By country

Litespeed Cache · Varnish · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 81,541 85,897
India 89,905 26,616
Brazil 68,287 16,535
United Kingdom 40,540 27,738
Indonesia 42,711 12,293
Germany 21,767 32,786
France 23,821 26,979
Canada 25,450 21,857

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

Real user performance

Metric Litespeed Cache Varnish
LCP 2.2 s 1.6 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 1000 ms 700 ms

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.

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