SiteGround vs WordPress.com
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
SiteGround · WordPress.com · 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.com · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
80,409
26,328
United Kingdom
27,087
7,868
Italy
30,110
3,710
Canada
15,498
5,137
Spain
14,972
4,285
India
11,812
6,993
Australia
13,209
3,185
France
5,976
5,671
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | SiteGround | WordPress.com |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 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.com
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| wemovejax.com | Feb 2026 |
| drwisdomteethaz.com | Jan 2026 |
| darrenandliliadancestudio.com | Dec 2025 |
| tuffonhall.co.uk | Sep 2025 |
| cambridgecentre.com | Aug 2025 |
| lewisiawellness.com | Jul 2025 |
WordPress.com to SiteGround
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| neoventures.net | May 2026 |
| yakkatraining.com.au | Apr 2026 |
| edilpooldesign.it | Apr 2026 |
| circlemlandscape.com | Jan 2026 |
| vcevanguardcoaching.com.au | Jan 2026 |
| ibassottidiegleechiara.com | Dec 2025 |
| freshfencing.com.au | Sep 2025 |
| kleckertactical.com | Jul 2025 |