Sitecore Experience Edge vs Varnish
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Sitecore Experience Edge · Varnish · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
114
Open Page Rank 8+
0
1,519
Open Page Rank 7+
0
5,479
Open Page Rank 6+
0
9,482
Open Page Rank 5+
0
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
Sitecore Experience Edge · Varnish · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
0
85,897
Germany
0
32,786
United Kingdom
0
27,738
France
0
26,979
India
0
26,616
Canada
0
21,857
Netherlands
0
21,806
Italy
0
19,616
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Sitecore Experience Edge | Varnish |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.8 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 175 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.1 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1500 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.