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+
16
13
Open Page Rank 7+
84
27
Open Page Rank 6+
240
65
Open Page Rank 5+
623
175
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
2,619
45,496
United States
20,556
16,424
India
3,033
2,272
Canada
3,039
2,255
United Kingdom
2,431
1,543
Mexico
2,009
1,869
Argentina
1,224
970
Indonesia
887
1,087
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, 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.
DreamHost to Hostgator
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| mbempresarial.com.br | Aug 2026 |
Hostgator to DreamHost
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| prime-spaces.com | Mar 2026 |