WordPress Block Editor vs WordPress Site Editor

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

Top sites by authority

WordPress Block Editor · WordPress Site Editor · 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

WordPress Block Editor · WordPress Site Editor · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 148,638

20,735

Japan 85,006

4,080

India 70,372

8,606

Germany 60,181

8,286

United Kingdom 52,969

7,487

France 51,370

7,603

Spain 42,570

5,123

Italy 42,277

5,391

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 WordPress Block Editor sites · All WordPress Site Editor sites