Varnish vs W3 Total Cache

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

Top sites by authority

Varnish · 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

Varnish · W3 Total Cache · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 94,977

44,926

Germany 36,724

17,761

United Kingdom 31,590

15,377

France 32,486

14,359

India 29,464

16,296

Italy 22,493

19,637

Canada 25,078

12,123

Netherlands 25,182

10,075

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 Varnish sites · All W3 Total Cache sites