DatoCMS vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DatoCMS · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
5
124
Open Page Rank 8+
30
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
95
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
200
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
327
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
DatoCMS · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,402
1,036,104
Japan
231
501,069
India
658
400,184
Germany
594
386,848
United Kingdom
747
348,389
France
610
338,555
Italy
568
318,819
Brazil
295
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DatoCMS | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.
DatoCMS to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| julias-palette.com | Mar 2026 |
| thewhiterose.life | Dec 2025 |
| tallis.fr | Aug 2025 |
WordPress to DatoCMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| syndicate-festival.de | Jun 2026 |
| camelotpetresort.com.au | Sep 2025 |
| skipass-avoriaz.com | Jul 2025 |