Pagely vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Pagely · WP Engine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
8
27
Open Page Rank 8+
92
436
Open Page Rank 7+
190
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
272
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
347
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
Pagely · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,608
144,016
United Kingdom
544
23,176
Canada
545
21,607
India
607
18,952
Australia
364
14,289
France
298
6,650
Mexico
312
6,311
Philippines
347
6,103
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Pagely | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Pagely to WP Engine
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| georgiaequalitypac.org | Jun 2026 |
| cafiresafecouncil.org | Jan 2026 |
| living-inventuracounty.com | Aug 2025 |