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 94,977

32,645

Germany 36,724

17,188

France 32,486

17,705

United Kingdom 31,590

11,851

India 29,464

11,174

Italy 22,493

13,491

Netherlands 25,182

9,626

Spain 20,649

13,361

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 WordPress Super Cache sites