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 85,897

39,423

Germany 32,786

15,648

United Kingdom 27,738

13,589

India 26,616

13,976

France 26,979

11,790

Italy 19,616

16,703

Canada 21,857

10,508

Netherlands 21,806

8,624

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, 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.

All Varnish sites · All W3 Total Cache sites