ExpressionEngine vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ExpressionEngine · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ExpressionEngine · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,298
915,273
Japan
143
434,030
India
473
347,241
Germany
389
344,615
United Kingdom
1,000
302,584
France
277
280,353
Brazil
226
272,704
Italy
332
272,209
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ExpressionEngine | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.
ExpressionEngine to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| studioskoop.be | Jul 2026 |
| wdm.co.uk | Nov 2025 |