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+
189
44
Open Page Rank 7+
480
141
Open Page Rank 6+
842
229
Open Page Rank 5+
1,517
307
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
2,006
19,992
United States
21,251
220
India
15,923
138
Spain
10,293
57
Germany
8,191
65
United Kingdom
7,141
74
France
6,668
67
Indonesia
5,567
188
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, 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.