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
124
Open Page Rank 8+
18
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
63
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
141
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
335
70,016
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
390
1,036,104
Japan
65
501,069
Germany
14,227
386,848
India
254
400,184
United Kingdom
238
348,389
France
779
338,555
Italy
389
318,819
Brazil
84
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Contao | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1100 ms |
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.
WordPress to Contao
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| karlzieglerschule.de | Oct 2025 |