🆚 Nginx vs. Varnish
- 📈 Nginx is much more popular than Varnish.
- 🌍 Nginx is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
NginxType
Web server
Caching
About
Nginx is a lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy.
It supports serving static files, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, SSL/TLS termination with SNI, proxying and load balancing for HTTP, TCP and UDP traffic, and caching of FastCGI/uwsgi/memcached responses.
Varnish Cache is an open-source web application accelerator, also known as a caching HTTP reverse proxy.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Stockholm, Sweden
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
NGINX Plus Enterprise Edition$3,500+/year
Free version ✔️Open source
Varnish Pro$1,500+/year
Varnish EnterpriseCustom
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Nginx web server is 15 times more popular than Varnish.
Total websites
Market share
Caching
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Nginx is more popular than Varnish in all countries.
United States
Japan
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
France
Spain
Italy
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Web Servers category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Caching category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia 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.
Nginx is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and education and reference, while Varnish is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, sports, and health sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Software/Hardware
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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F5, Inc. 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.