Litespeed Cache vs Varnish

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

2,566,921
websites
vs
611,365
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+ 12 115
Open Page Rank 8+ 152 1,502
Open Page Rank 7+ 667 5,418
Open Page Rank 6+ 1,688 9,371
Open Page Rank 5+ 3,954 14,620

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 79,835 85,715
India 89,144 26,370
Brazil 65,918 15,825
United Kingdom 40,159 28,057
Germany 20,857 32,333
Indonesia 40,852 12,312
France 23,601 27,422
Spain 29,935 18,754

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 1100 ms 600 ms

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.

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