MODX vs WordPress

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

Top sites by authority

MODX · WordPress · 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

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

United States 748

1,036,104

Japan 169

501,069

India 253

400,184

Germany 802

386,848

United Kingdom 445

348,389

France 267

338,555

Italy 213

318,819

Brazil 116

300,319

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, 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.

All MODX sites · All WordPress sites