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+
10
10
Open Page Rank 7+
23
27
Open Page Rank 6+
57
114
Open Page Rank 5+
163
493
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
310
157,477
Brazil
44,179
99
United States
15,958
789
India
2,174
254
Canada
2,174
129
Mexico
1,891
84
United Kingdom
1,513
134
Indonesia
1,024
428
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hostgator | Xserver |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 700 ms |
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.