⚡ Caching in Japan

Caching is a crucial website performance optimization technique that decreases page load times, reduces server load, and improves user experience by delivering frequently requested data more efficiently.

Japan is an East Asian country with a population of around 125 million people.

According to our statistics, caching solutions are detected on 58% of websites from Japan.

Statistics based on 170K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top caching solutions on websites in Japan in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Nginx, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 96.2% share.
It is followed by WP Fastest Cache with 2% and WP Super Cache with 1.8%.

Nginx 96.2%
WP Fastest Cache 2%
WP Super Cache 1.8%
W3 Total Cache 1.3%
Varnish 1%
LiteSpeed Cache 1%
WP Rocket 0.5%
Envoy 0.5%
WP-Optimize 0.4%
LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress 0.3%
Breeze 0.1%
Redis Object Cache 0.1%
Batcache 0.1%
Squid 0.1%
Cache Enabler 0.1%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top solutions that are more popular in Japan than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

2. WP Fastest Cache ^(-5)
3. WP Super Cache ^(-3)
4. W3 Total Cache ^(-1)
8. Envoy ^(-3)
11. Breeze ^(-1)
14. Squid ^(-12)
15. Cache Enabler ^(-2)
17. Comet Cache ^(-4)
18. HAProxy ^(-2)
22. Hyper Cache ^(-2)

✨ Best Caching Solutions

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 25 caching solutions used on sites from Japan, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	96.2%
2	WP Fastest Cache Ankara, Turkey A caching plugin that speeds up WordPress sites and improves the PageSpeed Insights score. FreeOpen source$49	2%
3	WP Super Cache San Francisco, California, United States An open-source, fast caching engine for WordPress that produces static HTML files. FreeOpen source	1.8%
4	W3 Total Cache Los Angeles, California, United States A feature-rich WordPress caching plugin to speed up websites and rank higher on Google. FreeOpen source$99+/year	1.3%
5	Varnish Stockholm, Sweden An open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy. FreeOpen source$1,500+/year	1%
6	LiteSpeed Cache Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A server-side caching solution designed specifically for LiteSpeed web servers, available as a plugin for WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Shopware, etc. Free	1%
7	WP Rocket Lyon, France A caching and performance optimization plugin that improves the loading speed of WordPress websites. $59/year	0.5%
8	Envoy San Francisco, California, United States A high-performance, open source edge and service proxy designed for cloud-native applications and large microservice "service mesh" architectures. FreeOpen source	0.5%
9	WP-Optimize Newport, Wales, United Kingdom An all-in-one WordPress plugin that cleans your database, compresses your images, and minifies and caches your website. FreeOpen source$49/year	0.4%
10	LiteSpeed Cache for WordPress Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States An all-in-one open source site acceleration plugin that provides server-level caching and a collection of optimization features. FreeOpen source	0.3%
11	Breeze New York, United States A simple and easy-to-use WordPress caching plugin with Varnish Cache and CDN integration. FreeOpen source	0.1%
12	Redis Object Cache Nelson, British Columbia, Canada A persistent object cache backend for WordPress, powered by Redis. FreeOpen source$95+/month	0.1%
13	Batcache San Francisco, California, United States An open source memcached HTML page cache for WordPress. FreeOpen source	0.1%
14	Squid Westminster, Colorado, United States A caching proxy for the web that supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. FreeOpen source	0.1%
15	Cache Enabler Ermatingen, Switzerland A lightweight caching plugin for WordPress that generates and serves static HTML files. FreeOpen source	0.1%
16	Hummingbird Melbourne, Australia A WordPress optimization plugin with built-in caching and CDN integration. FreeOpen source$15+/month	0.06%
17	Comet Cache Loganville, Georgia, United States A WordPress caching plugin that features page cache, client-side cache, 404 cache, feed cache, automatic expiration time, advanced cache plugin system, and more. FreeOpen source$39+	0.04%
18	HAProxy Newton, Massachusetts, United States A high-performance reverse proxy and load balancer for TCP- and HTTP-based applications. FreeOpen source$$$	0.01%
19	NitroPack Sofia, Bulgaria A performance optimization solution for WordPress, WooCommerce, Magento, and OpenCart that offers caching, code, image, and font optimization, and a built-in CDN. $17.50+/month	0.008%
20	Speed Optimizer Sofia, Bulgaria A free WordPress performance solution that includes file-based caching, minification, and font and font optimization. FreeOpen source	0.006%
⏳	FlyingPress Middletown, Delaware, United States A WordPress performance optimization plugin that improves page speed and Core Web Vitals through automated caching and frontend optimization. $59/year	0.005%
22	Hyper Cache Vicenza, Veneto, Italy A lightweight, easy to configure and high performance caching plugin for WordPress. FreeOpen source	0.004%
23	Swift Performance Ujlengyel, Pest, Hungary A WordPress caching plugin that includes page caching, CSS and JavaScript optimization, DB optimizer and plugin organizer. FreeOpen source$49.99/year	0.004%
24	Apache Traffic Server Wilmington, Delaware, United States A fast, scalable, and extensible web proxy cache that improves performance by caching frequently accessed information at the edge of the network. FreeOpen source	0.003%
25	ARES Tempe, Arizona, United States An application gateway for WordPress that provides routing and caching. Free	0.001%

👉 See Also

🌎 Caching in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 170,082 websites from Japan.
We currently track the presence of 27 caching solutions across the web.
Of these, 25 were detected on websites from Japan.
Statistics were last calculated on May 14, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.