SiteGround vs WP Engine

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

SiteGround · WP Engine · 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 · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 69,433

124,963

United Kingdom 23,682

19,915

Italy 27,640

4,343

Canada 13,279

18,591

India 9,881

15,626

Australia 11,392

12,064

Spain 13,827

4,537

Mexico 7,389

5,690

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, Sep 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 WP Engine sites