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+
38
27
Open Page Rank 8+
337
437
Open Page Rank 7+
901
1,896
Open Page Rank 6+
1,473
4,182
Open Page Rank 5+
2,267
8,000
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
9,739
128,215
United Kingdom
3,662
19,520
India
6,786
16,295
Canada
3,047
18,669
Australia
2,252
12,616
Brazil
4,034
4,742
Germany
3,440
5,085
Philippines
2,204
5,656
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 | 900 ms |
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.