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+
321
432
Open Page Rank 7+
1,148
1,853
Open Page Rank 6+
2,015
4,086
Open Page Rank 5+
3,040
7,812
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
14,110
124,963
United Kingdom
2,870
19,915
Canada
3,585
18,591
India
3,526
15,626
Australia
1,686
12,064
Mexico
1,678
5,690
Philippines
1,658
5,484
Germany
1,322
4,955
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, 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.
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 |