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
80,409
5,586
Italy
30,110
633
United Kingdom
27,087
1,233
Canada
15,498
1,304
Spain
14,972
661
Australia
13,209
898
India
11,812
1,051
Mexico
8,349
659
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, 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.
SiteGround to WordPress VIP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| divewailea.com | Apr 2026 |
WordPress VIP to SiteGround
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| democracyspeaks.org | Nov 2025 |
| dearmedia.com | Sep 2025 |