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 85,715

28,723

Germany 32,333

15,157

France 27,422

15,995

United Kingdom 28,057

10,340

India 26,370

9,928

Italy 20,151

11,982

Spain 18,754

12,551

Netherlands 21,890

8,439

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, Sep 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