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+
69
4
Open Page Rank 7+
158
21
Open Page Rank 6+
235
36
Open Page Rank 5+
346
47
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
3,477
559
Germany
2,266
50
Poland
2,039
21
Italy
1,930
46
India
1,327
125
United Kingdom
1,309
117
Spain
1,252
53
France
1,222
54
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | NextGEN Gallery | SmugMug |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2 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, 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.