GitHub Pages vs SiteGround
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GitHub Pages · 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
GitHub Pages · SiteGround · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
9,739
71,793
Italy
2,286
26,218
United Kingdom
3,662
23,905
India
6,786
10,331
Canada
3,047
13,455
Spain
2,416
12,968
Australia
2,252
11,821
Mexico
2,260
7,337
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitHub Pages | SiteGround |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 2 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 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.
GitHub Pages to SiteGround
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| bookcellar.uk | Jun 2026 |
| gauger.io | Jun 2026 |
SiteGround to GitHub Pages
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| jonasvonessen.se | May 2026 |
| hosteriadellamusica.com | Feb 2026 |