Ghost vs WordPress

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

Top sites by authority

Ghost · 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

Ghost · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 3,184

890,234

Japan 684

429,012

India 1,771

340,035

Germany 1,136

337,554

United Kingdom 1,476

300,059

Italy 798

285,630

France 1,020

284,252

Brazil 1,008

262,266

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, 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.

All Ghost sites · All WordPress sites