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+
335
438
Open Page Rank 7+
887
1,868
Open Page Rank 6+
1,450
4,116
Open Page Rank 5+
2,232
7,897
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
10,240
124,963
United Kingdom
3,754
19,915
India
6,854
15,626
Canada
3,275
18,591
Australia
2,189
12,064
Brazil
4,034
4,600
Germany
3,430
4,955
Mexico
2,327
5,690
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitHub Pages | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 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, 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.