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+
79
436
Open Page Rank 7+
216
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
344
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
512
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
Render · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,641
144,016
United Kingdom
1,268
23,176
Canada
1,073
21,607
India
1,848
18,952
Australia
796
14,289
France
999
6,650
Germany
1,444
6,082
Mexico
776
6,311
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, 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.
WP Engine to Render
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| becoolrefrigeration.co.uk | Apr 2026 |