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+
252
436
Open Page Rank 7+
796
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
1,445
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
2,364
8,200
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
21,330
144,016
United Kingdom
8,137
23,176
India
11,284
18,952
Canada
7,083
21,607
Australia
5,239
14,289
France
6,008
6,650
Brazil
6,521
5,192
Germany
5,595
6,082
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 | 800 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.
Netlify to WP Engine
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| thediamondcannabis.com | Feb 2026 |
WP Engine to Netlify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| onthegomoving.com | May 2026 |
| frogslayer.com | Apr 2026 |
| frostbitedispensary.com | Dec 2025 |