Astra vs WordPress Default
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Astra · WordPress Default · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Astra · WordPress Default · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
54,700
146
India
40,848
86
Spain
19,785
52
Brazil
17,822
70
Germany
17,658
66
France
16,604
73
United Kingdom
16,239
68
Indonesia
14,649
52
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Astra | WordPress Default |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.4 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
WordPress Default to Astra
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| emsuniversity.com | Jan 2026 |