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+
34
2
Open Page Rank 8+
271
3
Open Page Rank 7+
606
6
Open Page Rank 6+
883
9
Open Page Rank 5+
1,195
12
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
3,763
30
India
2,363
25
United Kingdom
2,224
17
Germany
1,933
16
France
1,729
21
Japan
1,586
19
Canada
1,402
13
Brazil
1,396
13
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hugo | Pelican |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 600 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.