A side-by-side comparison of two performance monitoring tools, based on the 161,527 Performance sites tracked by Site Stats Database.
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| Metric | a3 Lazy Load | W3 Total Cache |
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| Websites | 1,174 | 10,078 |
| Market share | 0.73% | 6.2% |
| Share of top 10K sites | 0.04% | 0.39% |
| Share of top 100K sites | 0.08% | 0.82% |
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| Rank | #17 | #7 |
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| Median DR | 24 | 26 |
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| Average DR | 27 | 28 |
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| Median keywords | 1,064 | 921 |
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| Median referring domains | 394 | 401 |
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| Median domain age | 11 yrs | 13 yrs |
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| Average domain age | 12 yrs | 14 yrs |
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| Average monthly traffic | 25,377 | 32,534 |
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| Combined monthly traffic | 29,792,980 | 327,876,269 |
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Monthly snapshots of each segment, 2026-06 to 2026-07. Website counts move when our catalog grows; the share of tracked sites is normalized, so it only moves when real prevalence changes.
Websites
Share of tracked sites
Combined monthly traffic
1,174 websites · rank #17
Top industries
Top markets
10,078 websites · rank #7
Top industries
Top markets
W3 Total Cache is used by more websites in our catalog: 1,174 use a3 Lazy Load and 10,078 use W3 Total Cache.
W3 Total Cache sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (a3 Lazy Load: 24, W3 Total Cache: 26).
Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, a3 Lazy Load went from 0.16% to 0.13% of all tracked sites, while W3 Total Cache went from 1.3% to 1.1%. a3 Lazy Load is gaining ground faster in our index.
85 websites in our catalog use both a3 Lazy Load and W3 Total Cache.
Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.
Citation
Site Stats Database. "a3 Lazy Load vs W3 Total Cache." Site Stats Database, July 1, 2026. https://sitestatsdb.com/technologies/performance-monitoring/compare/a3-lazy-load-vs-w3-total-cache
Site Stats Database tracks 1,174 websites using a3 Lazy Load and 10,078 using W3 Total Cache, each enriched with full monthly traffic history, authority, keywords, referring domains, and the complete detected tech stack. We detect every performance-monitoring tool by crawling each site's HTML, response headers, and DNS; traffic and SEO metrics come from DataForSEO and Ahrefs. Everything refreshes at least monthly.
See plans & pricing| English |
| 90 |
| 89,835 |
| 59,468 |
| 23 yrs |
| 1,090,688 |
| a3 Lazy Load |
| irunfar.com | English | 68 | 30,391 | 5,573 | 19 yrs | 1,047,064 | a3 Lazy Load |
| projectmanager.com | English | 78 | 89,962 | 15,657 | 29 yrs | 964,688 | a3 Lazy Load |
| springermountainfarms.com | English | 50 | 14,033 | 1,019 | 27 yrs | 935,597 | a3 Lazy Load |
| learnwithdrscott.com | English | 6 | 4,929 | 1,855 | 7 yrs | 799,700 | a3 Lazy Load |
| thefantasyfootballers.com | English | 56 | 45,920 | 4,092 | 11 yrs | 747,355 | a3 Lazy Load |
| washingtonian.com | English | 82 | 117,387 | 46,260 | 30 yrs | 721,607 | a3 Lazy Load |
| discoverwalks.com | English | 61 | 134,980 | 10,085 | 16 yrs | 543,421 | a3 Lazy Load |
| lifeisbutadish.com | English | 46 | 32,730 | 2,085 | 13 yrs | 533,854 | a3 Lazy Load |
| English |
| 72 |
| 120,731 |
| 9,378 |
| 27 yrs |
| 7,953,063 |
| W3 Total Cache |
| celebdirtylaundry.com | English | 50 | 50,268 | 11,016 | 19 yrs | 7,647,023 | W3 Total Cache |
| uconn.edu | English | 86 | 322,754 | 71,069 | 38 yrs | 5,881,512 | W3 Total Cache |
| wallpapers.com | English | 83 | 412,971 | 94,653 | 29 yrs | 4,850,792 | W3 Total Cache |
| conectate.com.do | Spanish | 46 | 6,937 | 2,294 | 17 yrs | 4,317,143 | W3 Total Cache |
| historyhit.com | English | 73 | 230,590 | 11,360 | 11 yrs | 4,095,352 | W3 Total Cache |
| pastemagazine.com | English | 82 | 400,802 | 63,685 | 24 yrs | 3,331,671 | W3 Total Cache |
| uchealth.org | English | 78 | 211,213 | 11,608 | 24 yrs | 3,246,332 | W3 Total Cache |
| opalcollection.com | English | 74 | 60,504 | 7,124 | 22 yrs | 3,144,094 | W3 Total Cache |