Varnish vs WordPress Super Cache

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

Top sites by authority

Varnish · WordPress Super 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 · WordPress Super Cache · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 85,897

29,045

Germany 32,786

15,252

France 26,979

14,824

United Kingdom 27,738

10,492

India 26,616

9,873

Italy 19,616

11,431

Netherlands 21,806

8,348

Canada 21,857

7,648

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 WordPress Super Cache sites