WordPress vs XpressEngine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
WordPress · XpressEngine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
122
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,606
3
Open Page Rank 7+
13,725
11
Open Page Rank 6+
32,402
18
Open Page Rank 5+
68,820
31
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
WordPress · XpressEngine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
915,273
99
Japan
434,030
72
India
347,241
47
Germany
344,615
21
United Kingdom
302,584
13
France
280,353
17
Brazil
272,704
17
Italy
272,209
14
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | WordPress | XpressEngine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 0.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 300 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.