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+
2,642
3
Open Page Rank 7+
13,961
11
Open Page Rank 6+
32,968
18
Open Page Rank 5+
70,016
32
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
1,036,104
103
Japan
501,069
71
India
400,184
55
Germany
386,848
25
United Kingdom
348,389
12
France
338,555
20
Italy
318,819
15
Brazil
300,319
19
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 | 50 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 300 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.