Google Sites vs WordPress

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

Top sites by authority

Google Sites · 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

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

United States 1,782

1,036,104

Japan 569

501,069

India 871

400,184

Germany 390

386,848

United Kingdom 510

348,389

France 511

338,555

Italy 451

318,819

Brazil 743

300,319

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, 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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Google Sites sites · All WordPress sites