Hostgator vs IONOS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hostgator · IONOS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
2
Open Page Rank 8+
13
18
Open Page Rank 7+
27
125
Open Page Rank 6+
65
478
Open Page Rank 5+
175
1,368
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hostgator · IONOS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Germany
470
92,113
Brazil
45,496
1,247
United States
16,424
21,921
Spain
691
31,827
France
477
30,844
United Kingdom
1,543
23,999
Mexico
1,869
5,795
India
2,272
3,987
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hostgator | IONOS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Hostgator to IONOS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| legendsgolf-resort.com | Jul 2026 |