Lithium vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Lithium · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
5
124
Open Page Rank 8+
55
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
109
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
131
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
144
70,016
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Lithium · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
376
1,036,104
Japan
267
501,069
India
344
400,184
Germany
323
386,848
United Kingdom
353
348,389
France
324
338,555
Italy
295
318,819
Brazil
271
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Lithium | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 150 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 1100 ms |
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.