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+
16
2,600
Open Page Rank 7+
60
13,569
Open Page Rank 6+
135
31,935
Open Page Rank 5+
325
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
Contao · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
353
890,234
Japan
59
429,012
Germany
12,898
337,554
India
223
340,035
United Kingdom
202
300,059
Italy
371
285,630
France
673
284,252
Brazil
82
262,266
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 | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
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 |