GitHub Pages vs SiteGround

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

104,190
websites
vs
609,723
websites

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 9+ 38 9
Open Page Rank 8+ 335 86
Open Page Rank 7+ 887 279
Open Page Rank 6+ 1,450 682
Open Page Rank 5+ 2,232 1,640

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 10,240 69,433
Italy 2,492 27,640
United Kingdom 3,754 23,682
India 6,854 9,881
Canada 3,275 13,279
Spain 2,674 13,827
Australia 2,189 11,392
Mexico 2,327 7,389

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric GitHub Pages SiteGround
LCP 1.4 s 2.1 s
INP 50 ms 50 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 500 ms 1100 ms

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.

GitHub Pages to SiteGround

DomainWhen
bookcellar.ukJun 2026
gauger.ioJun 2026

SiteGround to GitHub Pages

DomainWhen
esciencecenter.nlAug 2026
woodsat.comJul 2026
jonasvonessen.seMay 2026
hosteriadellamusica.comFeb 2026

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