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+
118
2
Open Page Rank 8+
1,526
12
Open Page Rank 7+
5,523
28
Open Page Rank 6+
9,579
47
Open Page Rank 5+
14,960
83
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
94,977
485
Germany
36,724
213
France
32,486
566
United Kingdom
31,590
180
India
29,464
253
Netherlands
25,182
131
Canada
25,078
149
Italy
22,493
213
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Varnish | wpCache |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 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, 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.
Varnish to wpCache
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| haltomorthodontics.com | Dec 2025 |
wpCache to Varnish
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| opensooq.com | Oct 2025 |