GitHub Pages vs SiteGround

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

93,319
websites
vs
595,453
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+ 36 7
Open Page Rank 8+ 335 85
Open Page Rank 7+ 911 284
Open Page Rank 6+ 1,475 703
Open Page Rank 5+ 2,273 1,687

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 10,334 80,409
Italy 2,720 30,110
United Kingdom 4,116 27,087
Canada 3,525 15,498
India 7,083 11,812
Spain 2,839 14,972
Australia 2,424 13,209
Mexico 2,489 8,349

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, 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.

GitHub Pages to SiteGround

DomainWhen
bookcellar.ukJun 2026
gauger.ioJun 2026

SiteGround to GitHub Pages

DomainWhen
hosteriadellamusica.comFeb 2026

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