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 9+
15
27
Open Page Rank 8+
140
436
Open Page Rank 7+
341
1,930
Open Page Rank 6+
500
4,270
Open Page Rank 5+
689
8,200
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
5,586
144,016
United Kingdom
1,233
23,176
Canada
1,304
21,607
India
1,051
18,952
Australia
898
14,289
France
702
6,650
Mexico
659
6,311
Germany
747
6,082
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, 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.