Contao vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Contao · 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+
17
2,606
Open Page Rank 7+
62
13,725
Open Page Rank 6+
140
32,402
Open Page Rank 5+
331
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
Contao · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
353
915,273
Japan
65
434,030
Germany
12,845
344,615
India
224
347,241
United Kingdom
209
302,584
France
635
280,353
Brazil
78
272,704
Italy
384
272,209
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Contao | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Contao to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| bestattungshaus-herrfurth.de | Jul 2026 |
| cafe-im-hirsch.de | May 2026 |
| studnie-opole.pl | May 2026 |
| kjhv-oh-ploen.de | May 2026 |
WordPress to Contao
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| lauf-fuer-mehr-zeit.de | Jul 2026 |
| saxcare.de | Jun 2026 |
| karlzieglerschule.de | Oct 2025 |