cPanel vs Plesk
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
cPanel · Plesk · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
14
Open Page Rank 8+
5
258
Open Page Rank 7+
12
1,044
Open Page Rank 6+
20
2,304
Open Page Rank 5+
32
5,136
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
cPanel · Plesk · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Spain
46
68,854
Germany
62
54,627
Italy
44
51,513
United States
121
44,602
France
49
37,387
Türkiye
56
35,378
United Kingdom
69
33,602
India
107
33,033
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | cPanel | Plesk |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 900 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.
Plesk to cPanel
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ehost.ec | Jul 2026 |