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+
12
11
Open Page Rank 7+
26
28
Open Page Rank 6+
62
117
Open Page Rank 5+
167
500
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
377
180,950
Brazil
49,314
94
United States
18,753
801
India
2,566
250
Canada
2,673
124
Mexico
2,130
92
Indonesia
1,332
588
United Kingdom
1,757
142
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, 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.