Gridsome vs Hugo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Gridsome · Hugo · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
34
Open Page Rank 8+
5
271
Open Page Rank 7+
8
606
Open Page Rank 6+
14
883
Open Page Rank 5+
23
1,195
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Gridsome · Hugo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
177
3,761
India
98
2,378
United Kingdom
87
2,209
Germany
91
1,897
France
78
1,740
Japan
48
1,568
Brazil
65
1,413
Canada
80
1,396
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Gridsome | Hugo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 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.