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+
124
0
Open Page Rank 8+
2,601
3
Open Page Rank 7+
13,608
11
Open Page Rank 6+
32,073
18
Open Page Rank 5+
68,027
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
890,234
104
Japan
429,012
55
India
340,035
49
Germany
337,554
19
United Kingdom
300,059
11
Italy
285,630
13
France
284,252
20
Brazil
262,266
14
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | WordPress | XpressEngine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1200 ms | 300 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.