CMS Made Simple vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
CMS Made Simple · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
122
Open Page Rank 8+
11
2,600
Open Page Rank 7+
21
13,569
Open Page Rank 6+
26
31,935
Open Page Rank 5+
35
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
CMS Made Simple · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
178
890,234
Japan
27
429,012
India
57
340,035
Germany
194
337,554
United Kingdom
102
300,059
Italy
49
285,630
France
304
284,252
Brazil
28
262,266
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | CMS Made Simple | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.