Varnish

Category - Cache Tools

Varnish is an web accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites as well as APIs.

Technology usage statistics

Websites using Varnish 438,485 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Cache Tools #1
Market share in Cache Tools 48.08%
Most popular version 6.0

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Varnish usage. (See Varnish Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Varnish +8,838
Websites that dropped Varnish -8,824
Websites that changed version of Varnish 1,268

Distribution by websites popularity

Varnish detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 1,305 websites
Top 100k sites 6,815 websites
Top 1m sites 46,672 websites

Websites utilizing Varnish

Top websites that use Varnish

Domain Country Rank Contacts
vimeo.com United States of America 26
creativecommons.org United States of America 34
reddit.com United States of America 35
www.reddit.com United States of America 35
www.forbes.com United States of America 42
forbes.com United States of America 42
See full domain list

Market Share

Varnish market share within the Cache Tools category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






Versions (by popularity)

  • 6.0 (45.39%)
  • 6.4 (26.09%)
  • 5.1 (11.50%)
  • 5.2 (5.15%)
  • 5.0 (4.87%)
  • 6.3 (4.54%)
  • 6.1 (1.80%)
  • 6.2 (0.65%)

Varnish often used together with


Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with Varnish on 380,232 domains. Total 8,690,114 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with Varnish on 294,741 domains. Total 6,620,828 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Web Servers.
Nginx is used together with Varnish on 244,990 domains. Total 3,125,413 domains found using Nginx
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with Varnish on 225,130 domains. Total 4,002,518 domains found using jQuery
Category - Mobile.
Viewport Meta is used together with Varnish on 213,142 domains. Total 5,065,567 domains found using Viewport Meta
Category - Document Standards.
HTML5 Tags is used together with Varnish on 202,120 domains. Total 4,279,915 domains found using HTML5 Tags


Alternative Technologies


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Google PageSpeed: Total 43,679 domains found using Google PageSpeed
Litespeed Cache: Total 54,526 domains found using Litespeed Cache
Oracle Web Cache: Total 168 domains found using Oracle Web Cache
RackCache: Total 13,987 domains found using RackCache
Speed Booster: Total 915 domains found using Speed Booster
squid: Total 861 domains found using squid
W3 Total Cache: Total 114,198 domains found using W3 Total Cache
WordPress Super Cache: Total 109,108 domains found using WordPress Super Cache