TownNews vs WordPress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
TownNews · WordPress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
124
Open Page Rank 8+
6
2,642
Open Page Rank 7+
62
13,961
Open Page Rank 6+
215
32,968
Open Page Rank 5+
445
70,016
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
TownNews · WordPress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,626
1,036,104
Japan
33
501,069
India
282
400,184
Germany
36
386,848
United Kingdom
151
348,389
France
33
338,555
Italy
27
318,819
Brazil
35
300,319
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | TownNews | WordPress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0.1 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 1100 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.