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 23,787

124,963

United Kingdom 6,962

19,915

Canada 4,434

18,591

India 6,086

15,626

Australia 2,770

12,064

France 4,898

4,976

Spain 3,885

4,537

Mexico 2,684

5,690

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, 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.

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