SiteGround vs WordPress VIP
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
SiteGround · WordPress VIP · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
SiteGround · WordPress VIP · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
71,793
4,916
Italy
26,218
563
United Kingdom
23,905
1,141
Canada
13,455
1,174
Spain
12,968
598
Australia
11,821
822
India
10,331
929
Mexico
7,337
584
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | SiteGround | WordPress VIP |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 700 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.
SiteGround to WordPress VIP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| divewailea.com | Apr 2026 |
WordPress VIP to SiteGround
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| democracyspeaks.org | Nov 2025 |
| dearmedia.com | Sep 2025 |