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
2,606
Open Page Rank 7+
66
13,725
Open Page Rank 6+
130
32,402
Open Page Rank 5+
242
68,820
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
3,203
915,273
Japan
180
434,030
India
516
347,241
Germany
879
344,615
United Kingdom
722
302,584
France
523
280,353
Brazil
828
272,704
Italy
519
272,209
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 | 1100 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.
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 |
| vuzkunaeva.edu.kz | Sep 2025 |