ButterCMS vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ButterCMS · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
122
Open Page Rank 8+
3
2,600
Open Page Rank 7+
8
13,569
Open Page Rank 6+
14
31,935
Open Page Rank 5+
28
67,594
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ButterCMS · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
138
890,234
Japan
26
429,012
India
75
340,035
Germany
40
337,554
United Kingdom
63
300,059
Italy
29
285,630
France
29
284,252
Brazil
29
262,266
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1200 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 to ButterCMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| frutillarhoy.cl | Feb 2026 |