Hexo vs Hugo
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hexo · Hugo · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
33
Open Page Rank 8+
15
277
Open Page Rank 7+
23
602
Open Page Rank 6+
30
885
Open Page Rank 5+
47
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
Hexo · Hugo · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
185
3,684
India
89
2,415
United Kingdom
58
2,222
Germany
54
1,891
Japan
152
1,576
France
52
1,651
Brazil
66
1,431
Indonesia
74
1,346
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hexo | Hugo |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.