Flywheel vs WP Engine

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Flywheel · WP Engine · 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

Flywheel · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 22,715

128,215

United Kingdom 2,398

19,520

Canada 2,800

18,669

India 1,475

16,295

Australia 1,358

12,616

Philippines 534

5,656

Mexico 465

5,518

Germany 448

5,085

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All Flywheel sites · All WP Engine sites