🆚 LiteSpeed Cache vs. Varnish
- 📈 LiteSpeed Cache is twice as popular as Varnish.
- 🌎 LiteSpeed Cache is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
- 🌍 Varnish is more popular in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LiteSpeed CacheType
Caching
Caching
About
LiteSpeed Cache is a server-side caching solution designed specifically for LiteSpeed web servers, available as a plugin for 
WordPress, 
Drupal, 
Joomla, 
Magento, Shopware, etc.
Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
Headquarters
Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States
Stockholm, Sweden
Pricing
Free ✔️Requires LiteSpeed Web Server or QUIC.cloud CDN
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The LiteSpeed Cache caching is 2 times more popular than Varnish.
Total websites
Market share
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
LiteSpeed Cache is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Varnish is more popular in Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.
United States
United Kingdom
Netherlands
France
India
Brazil
Spain
Australia
Germany
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Caching category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Load Balancers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the Load Balancers category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
LiteSpeed Cache is more popular among sites focused on business, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising, while Varnish is more commonly used on education and reference, entertainment, and general news sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Entertainment
General News
Travel
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
WP Super Cache
Nginx
Envoy
Apache Traffic Server
LiteSpeed Technologies company profile🗃️ 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 3,371,595 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.