Cloudways vs SiteGround

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Cloudways · SiteGround · 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

Cloudways · SiteGround · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 13,770

69,433

Italy 1,822

27,640

United Kingdom 5,113

23,682

Canada 3,475

13,279

Spain 1,242

13,827

Australia 2,365

11,392

India 3,427

9,881

Mexico 1,031

7,389

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 Cloudways sites · All SiteGround sites