NextGEN Gallery vs SmugMug
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
NextGEN Gallery · SmugMug · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
0
Open Page Rank 8+
79
6
Open Page Rank 7+
188
28
Open Page Rank 6+
282
45
Open Page Rank 5+
409
61
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
NextGEN Gallery · SmugMug · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
4,463
565
Germany
2,974
55
Poland
2,590
19
Italy
2,386
48
India
1,668
161
United Kingdom
1,655
131
France
1,639
71
Spain
1,515
61
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | NextGEN Gallery | SmugMug |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 600 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.