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
432
Open Page Rank 7+
3
1,853
Open Page Rank 6+
7
4,086
Open Page Rank 5+
7
7,812
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
117
124,963
United Kingdom
40
19,915
Canada
60
18,591
India
44
15,626
Australia
31
12,064
Mexico
25
5,690
Philippines
26
5,484
France
20
4,976
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nexcess | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.5 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1500 ms | 800 ms |
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.