GitHub Pages vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GitHub Pages · WP Engine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
36
27
Open Page Rank 8+
335
436
Open Page Rank 7+
911
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
1,475
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
2,273
8,200
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
GitHub Pages · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
10,334
144,016
United Kingdom
4,116
23,176
India
7,083
18,952
Canada
3,525
21,607
Australia
2,424
14,289
Germany
3,933
6,082
France
3,357
6,650
Brazil
4,241
5,192
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitHub Pages | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 800 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.