Movable Type vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Movable Type · 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+
9
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
25
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
36
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
48
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
Movable Type · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
81
1,036,104
Japan
704
501,069
India
38
400,184
Germany
31
386,848
United Kingdom
34
348,389
France
26
338,555
Italy
31
318,819
Brazil
23
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Movable Type | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 50 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.
Movable Type to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| kinki-shasej.org | Jun 2026 |