Craft CMS vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Craft CMS · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
10
124
Open Page Rank 8+
96
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
314
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
696
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
1,373
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
Craft CMS · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
6,774
1,036,104
Japan
541
501,069
India
1,894
400,184
Germany
2,343
386,848
United Kingdom
4,318
348,389
France
1,436
338,555
Italy
1,128
318,819
Brazil
712
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Craft CMS | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.
Craft CMS to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| fotograf-reimers.no | Jan 2026 |
WordPress to Craft CMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| vedett.com | Mar 2026 |
| alhatab.com.sa | Nov 2025 |