GoDaddy vs Hostgator

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

Top sites by authority

GoDaddy · Hostgator · 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

GoDaddy · Hostgator · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 569,625

16,424

India 167,700

2,272

United Kingdom 101,336

1,543

Canada 81,600

2,255

Brazil 22,926

45,496

Germany 58,898

470

Australia 37,602

820

Mexico 30,550

1,869

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

Real user performance

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.

All GoDaddy sites · All Hostgator sites