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
33
Open Page Rank 8+
5
277
Open Page Rank 7+
8
602
Open Page Rank 6+
15
885
Open Page Rank 5+
24
1,189
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
191
3,684
India
99
2,415
United Kingdom
89
2,222
Germany
81
1,891
France
80
1,651
Japan
49
1,576
Brazil
65
1,431
Canada
82
1,347
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, 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.