WordPress.com vs WP Engine

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

WordPress.com · 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.com · WP Engine · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 26,328

144,016

United Kingdom 7,868

23,176

Canada 5,137

21,607

India 6,993

18,952

Australia 3,185

14,289

France 5,671

6,650

Spain 4,285

5,234

Germany 3,348

6,082

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All WordPress.com sites · All WP Engine sites