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
436
Open Page Rank 7+
4
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
8
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
9
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
Nexcess · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
134
144,016
United Kingdom
49
23,176
Canada
76
21,607
India
56
18,952
Australia
45
14,289
France
34
6,650
Mexico
37
6,311
Philippines
29
6,103
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nexcess | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1400 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.