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 3,195

915,273

Japan 702

434,030

India 1,774

347,241

Germany 1,126

344,615

United Kingdom 1,465

302,584

France 1,012

280,353

Brazil 1,020

272,704

Italy 786

272,209

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 Ghost sites · All WordPress sites