Render vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Render · 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+
82
438
Open Page Rank 7+
220
1,868
Open Page Rank 6+
358
4,116
Open Page Rank 5+
519
7,897
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Render · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,709
124,963
United Kingdom
1,230
19,915
Canada
1,071
18,591
India
1,841
15,626
Australia
751
12,064
Mexico
730
5,690
Germany
1,326
4,955
Philippines
772
5,484
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Render | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 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.
WP Engine to Render
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| becoolrefrigeration.co.uk | Apr 2026 |