Netlify vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Netlify · WP Engine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
29
27
Open Page Rank 8+
247
437
Open Page Rank 7+
788
1,896
Open Page Rank 6+
1,427
4,182
Open Page Rank 5+
2,347
8,000
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Netlify · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
21,027
128,215
United Kingdom
7,614
19,520
India
10,770
16,295
Canada
6,548
18,669
Australia
4,868
12,616
Brazil
6,416
4,742
France
5,455
4,896
Germany
5,253
5,085
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Netlify | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.
Netlify to WP Engine
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| thediamondcannabis.com | Feb 2026 |
WP Engine to Netlify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| bettergolfacademy.com | Jul 2026 |
| keywestfoodtours.com | Jul 2026 |
| onthegomoving.com | May 2026 |
| frogslayer.com | Apr 2026 |
| frostbitedispensary.com | Dec 2025 |