microCMS vs WordPress

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

1,974
websites
vs
16,498,327
websites

Top sites by authority

microCMS · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 2 124
Open Page Rank 8+ 17 2,601
Open Page Rank 7+ 53 13,608
Open Page Rank 6+ 105 32,073
Open Page Rank 5+ 179 68,027

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

microCMS · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 143 890,234
Japan 1,338 429,012
India 72 340,035
Germany 46 337,554
United Kingdom 58 300,059
Italy 39 285,630
France 55 284,252
Brazil 44 262,266

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric microCMS WordPress
LCP 1.7 s 2.2 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 400 ms 1200 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.

microCMS to WordPress

DomainWhen
aoyamanagisa.jpFeb 2026

WordPress to microCMS

DomainWhen
mariharu.comSep 2026
gekiryo-pub.comSep 2026
suzumushisou.jpAug 2026
mota-home.netJul 2026
o-ki-ken.co.jpMay 2026
kssk.infoMar 2026
krolowka.plJan 2026
miraikodai.comJan 2026
hotel-rings.comJan 2026
wellnesthome.jpJan 2026

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