Varnish vs wpCache
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Varnish · wpCache · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
114
1
Open Page Rank 8+
1,519
10
Open Page Rank 7+
5,479
26
Open Page Rank 6+
9,482
46
Open Page Rank 5+
14,788
89
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Varnish · wpCache · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
85,897
401
Germany
32,786
180
United Kingdom
27,738
162
France
26,979
489
India
26,616
208
Canada
21,857
124
Netherlands
21,806
111
Italy
19,616
176
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Varnish | wpCache |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1200 ms |
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.
Varnish to wpCache
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| weekopvakantie.nl | Jul 2026 |
| haltomorthodontics.com | Dec 2025 |
wpCache to Varnish
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| opensooq.com | Oct 2025 |