Heroku vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Heroku · WP Engine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
27
Open Page Rank 8+
18
437
Open Page Rank 7+
47
1,896
Open Page Rank 6+
71
4,182
Open Page Rank 5+
93
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
Heroku · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
8,130
128,215
United Kingdom
2,893
19,520
Canada
2,653
18,669
India
2,854
16,295
Australia
1,733
12,616
Philippines
1,484
5,656
Mexico
1,619
5,518
Germany
2,011
5,085
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Heroku | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Heroku to WP Engine
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| cutanddry.com | Feb 2026 |
| shamrockroofer.com | Dec 2025 |
| jackhibbs.com | Sep 2025 |
| greetly.com | Sep 2025 |
| lucidprivateoffices.com | Sep 2025 |