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+
3
122
Open Page Rank 8+
26
2,606
Open Page Rank 7+
89
13,725
Open Page Rank 6+
191
32,402
Open Page Rank 5+
318
68,820
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
1,229
915,273
Japan
197
434,030
India
575
347,241
Germany
496
344,615
United Kingdom
640
302,584
France
494
280,353
Brazil
283
272,704
Italy
492
272,209
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DatoCMS | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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 |
WordPress to DatoCMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| syndicate-festival.de | Jun 2026 |
| camelotpetresort.com.au | Sep 2025 |