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
58
Open Page Rank 6+
12
134
Open Page Rank 5+
15
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
82
2,503
India
103
731
United Kingdom
39
769
Canada
32
614
Australia
24
333
Germany
35
300
Spain
23
294
Brazil
30
284
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 | 75 ms | 100 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.