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
122
Open Page Rank 8+
8
2,606
Open Page Rank 7+
23
13,725
Open Page Rank 6+
34
32,402
Open Page Rank 5+
46
68,820
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
78
915,273
Japan
584
434,030
India
31
347,241
Germany
21
344,615
United Kingdom
29
302,584
France
25
280,353
Brazil
18
272,704
Italy
23
272,209
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 | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 400 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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 |