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WP Engine

wpengine.com

WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting provider specializing in high-performance, secure, and scalable hosting solutions for WordPress websites. It offers features like automatic updates, daily backups, staging environments, and integrated CDN. WP Engine's platform is optimized for WordPress performance and includes developer-friendly tools like Git integration and transferable sites. Its focus on WordPress-specific hosting and premium support makes it popular among businesses and developers working with WordPress sites.

WP Engine belongs toHostingPaaScategories.

21websites

use it — 0.8% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#9of 34

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 130)

12public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

1.46% of all websites we track run WP Engine

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How WP Engine sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

46PerformancePooraverage site: 5085AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9389SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 50% slower than the average site

WP Engine sites
6.4 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most WP Engine sites load in 4.8–7.4 s. Home page weight: 5.0 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 12 public sites measured.

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software42%
Business Services17%
Educational Resources17%
Health and Wellness8%

Share of 12 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How WP Engine sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on WP Engine sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

WP Rocket9×Yoast SEO7×Nginx4×cdnjs3×Bootstrap2×OneTrust2×

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 21 WP Engine sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager86%Google Analytics76%Linkedin Insight Tag33%Facebook Pixel29%Yoast SEO62%OneTrust33%CookieYes14%WP Rocket29%DoubleClick Floodlight19%Google Ads19%Reddit Ads19%Marketo19%Qualified19%Autoptimize14%
Tag managerAnalyticsSearch visibilityCookie consentSpeed and cachingAdvertisingMarketingPlugin

Similar tools in its category

Hosting: 130 tools known, 34 seen in our scans

How websites combine WP Engine with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Built on a platform 15Complements another tool 4Integrates with another 1Overlaps with another 1

Websites using WP Engine

21 websites use WP Engine: 0.8% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about WP Engine

How many websites use WP Engine?
We found WP Engine on 21 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (0.8%). 12 of them have a public status page.
What is WP Engine often used with?
Among the websites we scan, WP Engine is often found alongside Google Tag Manager (85.7% of its sites), Google Analytics (76.2% of its sites), Cloudflare (61.9% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to WP Engine?
Other hosting tools we recognize include Amazon Web Services, MySQL, Amazon S3, Vercel.

Is your website built with WP Engine?

UptimeCard checks it around the clock, tells you the minute it stops answering, and gives your visitors a status page.