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
122
Open Page Rank 8+
31
2,600
Open Page Rank 7+
67
13,569
Open Page Rank 6+
128
31,935
Open Page Rank 5+
235
67,594
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
2,982
890,234
Japan
175
429,012
India
483
340,035
Germany
825
337,554
United Kingdom
717
300,059
Italy
531
285,630
France
550
284,252
Brazil
797
262,266
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 | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1200 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.
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 |
WordPress to October CMS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| profielektromeister.sk | Jun 2026 |
| mrcmatawinie.org | Jan 2026 |
| oakhursthotel.co.za | Dec 2025 |