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 13,770

124,963

United Kingdom 5,113

19,915

Canada 3,475

18,591

India 3,427

15,626

Australia 2,365

12,064

Mexico 1,031

5,690

Philippines 939

5,484

Germany 1,431

4,955

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, 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.

All Cloudways sites · All WP Engine sites