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 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 21,853

124,963

United Kingdom 7,835

19,915

India 10,921

15,626

Canada 6,790

18,591

Australia 4,865

12,064

Brazil 6,607

4,600

France 5,739

4,976

Germany 5,332

4,955

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, Sep 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 Netlify sites · All WP Engine sites