aThemes Hiero vs GeneratePress
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
aThemes Hiero · GeneratePress · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
19
Open Page Rank 8+
3
197
Open Page Rank 7+
6
496
Open Page Rank 6+
9
873
Open Page Rank 5+
14
1,589
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
aThemes Hiero · GeneratePress · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
45
21,715
India
24
16,166
Spain
23
9,662
Germany
24
8,365
United Kingdom
22
7,139
France
37
6,965
Indonesia
20
5,901
Canada
22
5,454
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | aThemes Hiero | GeneratePress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 1100 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.