DreamHost vs Hostgator
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DreamHost · Hostgator · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
1
Open Page Rank 8+
13
12
Open Page Rank 7+
85
26
Open Page Rank 6+
241
62
Open Page Rank 5+
627
167
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
DreamHost · Hostgator · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Brazil
2,916
49,314
United States
23,178
18,753
Canada
3,553
2,673
India
3,296
2,566
United Kingdom
2,756
1,757
Mexico
2,228
2,130
Argentina
1,363
1,069
Indonesia
1,069
1,332
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DreamHost | Hostgator |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Hostgator to DreamHost
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| prime-spaces.com | Mar 2026 |
| fly2tw.com | Jul 2025 |
| getaipei.com | Jul 2025 |