Hiawatha vs LiteSpeed
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hiawatha · LiteSpeed · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
15
Open Page Rank 8+
0
233
Open Page Rank 7+
0
871
Open Page Rank 6+
0
2,027
Open Page Rank 5+
0
4,745
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hiawatha · LiteSpeed · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
3
123,292
United States
8
84,795
Poland
0
75,651
Brazil
3
75,601
Indonesia
2
74,226
United Kingdom
1
51,794
Türkiye
1
50,933
Vietnam
1
40,655
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hiawatha | LiteSpeed |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1000 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.