Hostgator vs Xserver
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hostgator · Xserver · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
0
Open Page Rank 8+
13
11
Open Page Rank 7+
27
28
Open Page Rank 6+
65
117
Open Page Rank 5+
175
499
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hostgator · Xserver · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Japan
315
158,717
Brazil
45,496
96
United States
16,424
753
India
2,272
253
Canada
2,255
116
Mexico
1,869
72
United Kingdom
1,543
125
Indonesia
1,087
480
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hostgator | Xserver |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 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.