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 14,008

71,793

United Kingdom 5,010

23,905

Italy 1,763

26,218

Canada 3,454

13,455

Australia 2,422

11,821

Spain 1,142

12,968

India 3,482

10,331

Mexico 994

7,337

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, 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.

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