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 151,348

20,395

Japan 85,837

4,002

India 71,384

7,722

Germany 61,162

8,131

United Kingdom 53,075

7,320

France 51,017

7,182

Italy 40,146

4,961

Spain 39,836

4,712

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 WordPress Block Editor sites · All WordPress Site Editor sites