microCMS vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
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+
4
124
Open Page Rank 8+
21
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
52
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
103
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
172
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
microCMS · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
157
1,036,104
Japan
1,324
501,069
India
73
400,184
Germany
58
386,848
United Kingdom
67
348,389
France
61
338,555
Italy
41
318,819
Brazil
44
300,319
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 | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 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.
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
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| aoyamanagisa.jp | Feb 2026 |
WordPress to microCMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| o-ki-ken.co.jp | May 2026 |
| kssk.info | Mar 2026 |
| krolowka.pl | Jan 2026 |
| miraikodai.com | Jan 2026 |
| hotel-rings.com | Jan 2026 |
| wellnesthome.jp | Jan 2026 |
| kamatasai.jp | Sep 2025 |