Hostgator vs WordPress Multisite

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Hostgator · WordPress Multisite · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Hostgator · WordPress Multisite · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 18,753

43,258

Brazil 49,314

6,909

United Kingdom 1,757

14,569

India 2,566

11,671

France 605

13,012

Germany 597

12,314

Canada 2,673

9,323

Italy 582

9,982

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Hostgator sites · All WordPress Multisite sites