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
53,034
140
India
39,679
81
Spain
21,219
56
Germany
17,293
66
Brazil
16,961
66
France
16,546
66
United Kingdom
16,069
63
Indonesia
14,339
58
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Astra | WordPress Default |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.5 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1400 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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 |