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+
18
1
Open Page Rank 8+
190
47
Open Page Rank 7+
511
151
Open Page Rank 6+
907
241
Open Page Rank 5+
1,664
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
2,428
23,422
United States
25,094
232
India
19,394
144
Spain
11,493
70
Germany
9,659
85
France
8,719
76
United Kingdom
8,347
94
Indonesia
7,180
205
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, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.