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 637,355

18,753

India 184,832

2,566

United Kingdom 116,139

1,757

Canada 92,485

2,673

Brazil 25,178

49,314

Germany 66,472

597

Australia 41,491

951

Mexico 34,062

2,130

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, 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.

All GoDaddy sites · All Hostgator sites