Caching Used by UK Wholesale Companies: Market Share (2026)

Detected caching across 2,683 of 77,014 trading UK wholesale companies, with LiteSpeed Cache leading at 43.7% market share.

Among 77,014 trading UK wholesale companies, 2,683 have a detectable Caching system. The category is concentrated around WordPress-oriented tools, with 12 systems detected across the wholesale cohort.

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LiteSpeed Cache leads detected use at 43.7% (1,173 companies), followed by WP Rocket at 25.0% (672). W3 Total Cache sits at 9.8% (262), while WP Super Cache, WP-Optimize, WP Fastest Cache, Redis Object Cache and NitroPack each sit below 7.0%.

The long tail is relatively small: 4 further systems cover 65 companies outside the named systems. LiteSpeed Cache also leads each headcount band, taking 43.9% of Under 10 employees, 43.3% of 10–50 employees and 43.5% of Over 50 employees.

2,683

wholesale with detected Caching

Of 77,014 UK wholesale

3.5%

Detection rate

2026

12

Systems detected

In this category

43.7%

Leader share

LiteSpeed Cache

UK Wholesale Caching market share

Other (4 systems)

Share of the 2,683 UK Wholesale with a detectable system. As of June 2026.

Caching compared

SystemUK WholesaleShareMedian headcountLondon shareTypical profile
LiteSpeed Cache1,17343.7%615.3%Six-person wholesalers, 43.7% share
WP Rocket67225%614%Six-person wholesalers, 25.0% share
W3 Total Cache2629.8%511.1%Five-person wholesalers, 9.8% share
WP Super Cache1716.4%512.9%Five-person wholesalers, 6.4% share
WP-Optimize1435.3%414.7%Four-person wholesalers, 5.3% share
WP Fastest Cache1284.8%511.7%Five-person wholesalers, 4.8% share
Redis Object Cache1064%613.2%Six-person wholesalers, 4.0% share
NitroPack542%516.7%Five-person wholesalers, 2.0% share
WPMU DEV Hummingbird421.6%View these companies in Firmbase →
Super Page Cache130.5%View these companies in Firmbase →
Blitz90.3%View these companies in Firmbase →
FlyingPress80.3%View these companies in Firmbase →

Systems detected below the page threshold appear with counts only; their full lists are available in the Firmbase app.

Market leader by size

The leading Caching system shifts with company size: among UK Wholesale with under 10 employees, LiteSpeed Cache leads at 43.9% of the 1,847 with a detectable system; among UK Wholesale with 10–50 employees, LiteSpeed Cache leads at 43.3% of the 751 with a detectable system; and among UK Wholesale with over 50 employees, LiteSpeed Cache leads at 43.5% of the 85 with a detectable system.

Under 10 employees

LiteSpeed Cache

43.9% of band

Under 10 employees is the largest detected band, with 1,847 wholesale companies. LiteSpeed Cache leads at 43.9%, with WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache and the remaining detected systems competing for the rest of the market.

10–50 employees

LiteSpeed Cache

43.3% of band

10–50 employees contains 751 detected wholesale companies, forming the main mid-sized headcount band in this scope. LiteSpeed Cache leads at 43.3%, while WP Rocket and W3 Total Cache are the largest named alternatives overall at 25.0% (672) and 9.8% (262).

Over 50 employees

LiteSpeed Cache

43.5% of band

Over 50 employees covers 85 detected wholesale companies, so individual system choices move share more visibly than in the smaller headcount bands. LiteSpeed Cache still leads at 43.5%, with WP Rocket, W3 Total Cache and the remaining detected systems forming the alternative set.

How Caching usage is detected

Methodology

Company data

Detected companies are joined to UK Companies House records and XBRL accounts data. Revenue and headcount figures come from the most recent filed accounts; where the company has not filed, values are estimated using a model trained on filed history and peer benchmarks and are labelled as estimates.

Detection

Firmbase crawls the public website of actively-trading UK companies and fingerprints the technologies present: tracking scripts, embedded forms, chat widgets, CMS markers and similar signatures. A company is included in this list when one or more of the technology's signatures are found on its site; closely-related variants of the same product are grouped under one name. Detection covers what is visible on the public web — a company using the technology purely internally, with no website footprint, will not appear. Counts are therefore a conservative floor, not a ceiling.

Freshness

Websites are re-crawled on a rolling basis and the underlying company data is refreshed from Companies House continuously; filings appear within days of submission. The list and its statistics are regenerated when the detected cohort moves meaningfully. You can see the last-updated timestamp near the top of the page.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the most-used Caching among UK wholesale companies?
LiteSpeed Cache is the most-detected Caching among UK wholesale companies, with 43.7% share (1,173 of 2,683 companies with a detectable system), ahead of WP Rocket (25%) and W3 Total Cache (9.8%).
How many UK wholesale companies have a detectable Caching?
2,683 of 77,014 actively-trading UK wholesale companies (3.5%) have a Caching detectable from their public website. The remainder either run systems with no public web footprint or none at all, so detected share figures are a conservative floor.
What is a Caching?
A Caching system stores previously generated website content so repeat page requests can be served without rebuilding each response. For UK wholesale companies, the job is to reduce server work across trading websites; 2,683 of 77,014 trading companies in this scope have a detectable Caching system.
How is Caching usage detected?
Firmbase crawls the public website of every actively-trading company in this scope and fingerprints the technologies present — scripts, widgets, booking and checkout flows. A company is attributed to a system when that system's signatures are found; systems with no public web footprint are not attributable, which is why every share figure on this page means share of companies with a detectable system.
Which has more UK wholesale companies, LiteSpeed Cache or WP Rocket?
LiteSpeed Cache: 1,173 detected companies versus 672 for WP Rocket, of the 2,683 UK wholesale companies with a detectable Caching.
What is the best Caching for UK wholesale companies?
This page publishes detected usage patterns rather than recommendations, so it does not identify a single best Caching system. LiteSpeed Cache is the largest detected system overall at 43.7% (1,173), ahead of WP Rocket at 25.0% (672), and it leads every headcount band: Under 10 employees at 43.9% (1,847), 10–50 employees at 43.3% (751), and Over 50 employees at 43.5% (85).

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