Kinsta vs WP Engine

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

Top sites by authority

Kinsta · 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

Kinsta · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 27,236

128,215

United Kingdom 7,284

19,520

Canada 5,834

18,669

India 5,332

16,295

Australia 5,076

12,616

France 3,666

4,896

Germany 3,132

5,085

Netherlands 4,153

3,758

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, 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.

All Kinsta sites · All WP Engine sites