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 71,793

23,702

United Kingdom 23,905

6,903

Italy 26,218

3,203

Canada 13,455

4,373

India 10,331

6,282

Spain 12,968

3,590

Australia 11,821

2,929

Mexico 7,337

2,535

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All SiteGround sites · All WordPress.com sites