October CMS vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
October CMS · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
124
Open Page Rank 8+
30
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
66
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
133
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
245
70,016
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
October CMS · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,736
1,036,104
Japan
213
501,069
India
606
400,184
Germany
990
386,848
United Kingdom
848
348,389
France
630
338,555
Italy
605
318,819
Brazil
918
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | October CMS | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1100 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.
October CMS to WordPress
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| thepetvet.co.uk | Apr 2026 |
| ibmrcollege.com | Jul 2025 |
| adidharmahotel.com | Jul 2025 |
WordPress to October CMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| profielektromeister.sk | Jun 2026 |
| mrcmatawinie.org | Jan 2026 |
| oakhursthotel.co.za | Dec 2025 |
| vuzkunaeva.edu.kz | Sep 2025 |