🆚 ARES vs. Varnish

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *
ARES
Varnish

Type

Caching solution
Caching solution

About

Pagely ARES is an application gateway for WordPress that provides routing and caching.

Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.

Headquarters

Tempe, Arizona, United States
Stockholm, Sweden

Website

pagely.com #130,460
varnish-cache.org #547,741

Pricing

Free ✔️Included with Pagefly hosting packages
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom

Categories

Caching › Rank #22
Caching › Rank #4
Load Balancers › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Varnish caching solution is 85 times more popular than ARES.
Total websites

Market share

Caching

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Varnish is more popular than ARES in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Denmark
Sweden
Netherlands
Norway
Italy
Belgium

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Varnish is more popular than ARES in all market segments.
Business
Education/Reference
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Marketing/Merchandising
Sports
Internet Services
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#6,924
#7,213
#11,571
#12,451
#13,583
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Name
Rank
#12
#23
#34
#42
#44
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See also

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