Live Story vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Live Story · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
124
Open Page Rank 8+
0
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
6
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
11
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
17
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
Live Story · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
65
1,036,104
Japan
25
501,069
India
42
400,184
Germany
69
386,848
United Kingdom
61
348,389
France
68
338,555
Italy
87
318,819
Brazil
33
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Live Story | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.4 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 137 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 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.