Automattic vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Detections for Automattic end in Jan 2022. The fingerprint catalog behind our crawls no longer carries that technology as its own entry, usually because it was retired or split into more specific ones, so its figure is the last recorded and is not directly comparable with a currently tracked technology.
Top sites by authority
Automattic · WP Engine · 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
Automattic · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
526
128,215
United Kingdom
201
19,520
Canada
182
18,669
India
213
16,295
Australia
113
12,616
Philippines
128
5,656
Mexico
129
5,518
Germany
141
5,085
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Automattic | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 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.