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+
7
27
Open Page Rank 8+
76
437
Open Page Rank 7+
211
1,896
Open Page Rank 6+
343
4,182
Open Page Rank 5+
510
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
Render · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,576
128,215
United Kingdom
1,208
19,520
Canada
1,037
18,669
India
1,777
16,295
Australia
736
12,616
Philippines
754
5,656
Germany
1,318
5,085
Mexico
723
5,518
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 | 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.
WP Engine to Render
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| becoolrefrigeration.co.uk | Apr 2026 |