GeneratePress vs Lightning
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GeneratePress · Lightning · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
19
1
Open Page Rank 8+
197
49
Open Page Rank 7+
496
151
Open Page Rank 6+
873
242
Open Page Rank 5+
1,589
320
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
GeneratePress · Lightning · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Japan
2,046
20,149
United States
21,715
218
India
16,166
136
Spain
9,662
54
Germany
8,365
72
United Kingdom
7,139
76
France
6,965
63
Indonesia
5,901
182
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GeneratePress | Lightning |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 900 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.