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
118
Open Page Rank 8+
0
1,526
Open Page Rank 7+
0
5,523
Open Page Rank 6+
0
9,579
Open Page Rank 5+
0
14,960
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
94,977
Germany
0
36,724
France
0
32,486
United Kingdom
0
31,590
India
0
29,464
Netherlands
0
25,182
Canada
0
25,078
Italy
0
22,493
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Sitecore Experience Edge | Varnish |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 650 ms | 700 ms |
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.