Astro vs Pelican
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Astro · Pelican · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
34
2
Open Page Rank 8+
279
5
Open Page Rank 7+
797
8
Open Page Rank 6+
1,327
11
Open Page Rank 5+
2,043
13
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Astro · Pelican · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
12,979
38
India
9,036
25
Brazil
6,685
16
France
5,788
28
Germany
5,447
23
United Kingdom
5,281
23
Spain
5,226
15
Japan
4,588
26
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Astro | Pelican |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 500 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.