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+
115
1
Open Page Rank 8+
1,502
9
Open Page Rank 7+
5,418
25
Open Page Rank 6+
9,371
46
Open Page Rank 5+
14,620
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
85,715
386
Germany
32,333
169
United Kingdom
28,057
163
France
27,422
484
India
26,370
204
Canada
22,275
131
Netherlands
21,890
111
Italy
20,151
174
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 | 600 ms | 1200 ms |
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.
Varnish to wpCache
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| weekopvakantie.nl | Jul 2026 |
| haltomorthodontics.com | Dec 2025 |
wpCache to Varnish
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| opensooq.com | Oct 2025 |