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+
1
3
Open Page Rank 8+
2
14
Open Page Rank 7+
4
60
Open Page Rank 6+
9
137
Open Page Rank 5+
12
226
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
96
2,725
India
126
805
United Kingdom
49
862
Canada
36
669
Australia
30
369
Germany
45
332
Spain
31
336
Brazil
36
314
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hashnode | Substack |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 ms |
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.