Nexcess vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nexcess · WP Engine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
27
Open Page Rank 8+
0
437
Open Page Rank 7+
4
1,896
Open Page Rank 6+
8
4,182
Open Page Rank 5+
8
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
Nexcess · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
118
128,215
United Kingdom
42
19,520
Canada
61
18,669
India
46
16,295
Australia
33
12,616
Philippines
27
5,656
Mexico
26
5,518
Germany
25
5,085
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nexcess | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.4 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 87 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1400 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.