Cloudways vs WP Engine

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Cloudways · 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

Cloudways · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 15,708

144,016

United Kingdom 5,776

23,176

Canada 4,010

21,607

India 3,972

18,952

Australia 2,657

14,289

France 1,473

6,650

Germany 1,689

6,082

Mexico 1,143

6,311

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Cloudways sites · All WP Engine sites