Pantheon vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Pantheon · WP Engine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
21
27
Open Page Rank 8+
330
436
Open Page Rank 7+
1,158
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
2,026
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
3,050
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
Pantheon · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
16,094
144,016
United Kingdom
3,301
23,176
Canada
3,979
21,607
India
4,046
18,952
Australia
1,941
14,289
France
1,661
6,650
Mexico
1,833
6,311
Philippines
1,822
6,103
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Pantheon | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Pantheon to WP Engine
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| adamscountyhealthdepartment.org | Aug 2025 |
WP Engine to Pantheon
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| travelbelize.org | May 2026 |
| goodtoknowfacts.org | Apr 2026 |
| albertalocksolid.com | Dec 2025 |