WordPress VIP vs WP Engine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
WordPress VIP · 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
WordPress VIP · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
4,916
128,215
United Kingdom
1,141
19,520
Canada
1,174
18,669
India
929
16,295
Australia
822
12,616
Philippines
610
5,656
Mexico
584
5,518
Germany
651
5,085
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | WordPress VIP | WP Engine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 900 ms |
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.
WP Engine to WordPress VIP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| avweb.com | Jul 2026 |