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
4,753
124,963
United Kingdom
1,099
19,915
Canada
1,141
18,591
India
913
15,626
Australia
836
12,064
Mexico
586
5,690
Philippines
582
5,484
Germany
632
4,955
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 | 800 ms |
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.
WP Engine to WordPress VIP
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| avweb.com | Jul 2026 |