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 80,409

144,016

United Kingdom 27,087

23,176

Canada 15,498

21,607

Italy 30,110

4,872

India 11,812

18,952

Australia 13,209

14,289

Spain 14,972

5,234

Mexico 8,349

6,311

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, 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.

All SiteGround sites · All WP Engine sites