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+
33
2
Open Page Rank 8+
277
4
Open Page Rank 7+
602
7
Open Page Rank 6+
885
10
Open Page Rank 5+
1,189
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
3,684
30
India
2,415
25
United Kingdom
2,222
16
Germany
1,891
18
France
1,651
22
Japan
1,576
18
Brazil
1,431
15
Canada
1,347
14
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hugo | Pelican |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 550 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.