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 15,958

36,874

Brazil 44,179

6,018

United Kingdom 1,513

12,531

India 2,174

9,770

Germany 471

10,783

France 460

10,711

Canada 2,174

8,081

Italy 486

8,890

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, 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.

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