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
124
Open Page Rank 8+
3
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
10
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
16
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
32
70,016
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
146
1,036,104
Japan
26
501,069
India
90
400,184
Germany
52
386,848
United Kingdom
79
348,389
France
50
338,555
Italy
29
318,819
Brazil
34
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ButterCMS | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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 |