Hugo vs Pelican
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hugo · Pelican · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
32
2
Open Page Rank 8+
282
5
Open Page Rank 7+
622
8
Open Page Rank 6+
903
11
Open Page Rank 5+
1,212
13
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hugo · Pelican · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,962
38
India
2,615
25
United Kingdom
2,452
23
Germany
2,075
23
France
2,015
28
Japan
1,847
26
Indonesia
1,560
19
Brazil
1,519
16
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hugo | Pelican |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 500 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.