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
2,246
890,234
Japan
146
429,012
India
463
340,035
Germany
359
337,554
United Kingdom
1,035
300,059
Italy
347
285,630
France
271
284,252
Brazil
231
262,266
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 | 1200 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.
ExpressionEngine to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| studioskoop.be | Jul 2026 |
| wdm.co.uk | Nov 2025 |