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 457,222 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Cache Tools #1
Market share in Cache Tools 49.17%
Most popular version 6.0

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Varnish usage. (See Varnish Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Varnish +8,702
Websites that dropped Varnish -21,172
Websites that changed version of Varnish 33,754

Distribution by websites popularity

Varnish detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 1,284 websites
Top 100k sites 6,692 websites
Top 1m sites 45,862 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
forbes.com United States of America 42
www.forbes.com United States of America 4,570,514
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 (47.74%)
  • 6.5 (20.90%)
  • 5.1 (10.96%)
  • 5.2 (4.78%)
  • 5.0 (4.63%)
  • 6.3 (4.53%)
  • 6.4 (4.05%)
  • 6.1 (1.76%)
  • 6.2 (0.65%)

Varnish often used together with


Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with Varnish on 398,015 domains. Total 8,702,930 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with Varnish on 312,518 domains. Total 6,622,159 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Web Servers.
Nginx is used together with Varnish on 266,694 domains. Total 3,206,110 domains found using Nginx
Category - JavaScript Libraries.
jQuery is used together with Varnish on 252,366 domains. Total 4,177,824 domains found using jQuery
Category - Mobile.
Viewport Meta is used together with Varnish on 201,861 domains. Total 4,818,971 domains found using Viewport Meta
Category - Document Standards.
Description Meta is used together with Varnish on 200,922 domains. Total 3,558,654 domains found using Description Meta


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Kangle: Total 1,846 domains found using Kangle
Litespeed Cache: Total 52,298 domains found using Litespeed Cache
NitroPack: Total 1,176 domains found using NitroPack
RackCache: Total 18,057 domains found using RackCache
Redis Object Cache: Total 3,084 domains found using Redis Object Cache
Speed Booster: Total 864 domains found using Speed Booster
squid: Total 775 domains found using squid