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
432
Open Page Rank 7+
47
1,853
Open Page Rank 6+
71
4,086
Open Page Rank 5+
92
7,812
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
8,048
124,963
United Kingdom
2,860
19,915
Canada
2,636
18,591
India
2,771
15,626
Australia
1,693
12,064
Mexico
1,601
5,690
France
2,041
4,976
Philippines
1,448
5,484
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 | 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.
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 |