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
18
Open Page Rank 8+
3
190
Open Page Rank 7+
7
511
Open Page Rank 6+
10
907
Open Page Rank 5+
14
1,664
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
52
25,094
India
25
19,394
Spain
29
11,493
Germany
28
9,659
France
40
8,719
United Kingdom
28
8,347
Indonesia
25
7,180
Canada
21
6,687
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | aThemes Hiero | GeneratePress |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 1100 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.