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 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 9,361

144,016

United Kingdom 3,334

23,176

Canada 3,068

21,607

India 3,269

18,952

Australia 1,983

14,289

France 2,464

6,650

Germany 2,351

6,082

Mexico 1,830

6,311

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 Heroku sites · All WP Engine sites