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+
20
27
Open Page Rank 8+
324
437
Open Page Rank 7+
1,156
1,896
Open Page Rank 6+
2,029
4,182
Open Page Rank 5+
3,054
8,000
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
14,179
128,215
United Kingdom
2,803
19,520
Canada
3,475
18,669
India
3,631
16,295
Australia
1,764
12,616
Philippines
1,686
5,656
Mexico
1,606
5,518
Germany
1,368
5,085
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 | 900 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.
Pantheon to WP Engine
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| snldental.com | Jul 2026 |
| sncdentalbh.com | Jul 2026 |
| verato.com | Jun 2026 |
| centralpiercefire.org | Jun 2026 |
| thegatesworth.com | May 2026 |
WP Engine to Pantheon
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| travelbelize.org | May 2026 |
| goodtoknowfacts.org | Apr 2026 |
| albertalocksolid.com | Dec 2025 |