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+
1
122
Open Page Rank 8+
13
2,606
Open Page Rank 7+
24
13,725
Open Page Rank 6+
28
32,402
Open Page Rank 5+
37
68,820
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
185
915,273
Japan
26
434,030
India
57
347,241
Germany
197
344,615
United Kingdom
101
302,584
France
297
280,353
Brazil
27
272,704
Italy
49
272,209
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 | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.