Hashnode vs Substack
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hashnode · Substack · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
2
13
Open Page Rank 7+
5
54
Open Page Rank 6+
12
128
Open Page Rank 5+
15
221
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hashnode · Substack · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
85
2,486
India
106
736
United Kingdom
39
799
Canada
34
611
Australia
26
362
Germany
36
306
Brazil
31
290
Spain
25
282
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hashnode | Substack |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 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.