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+
71
8
Open Page Rank 7+
172
29
Open Page Rank 6+
255
46
Open Page Rank 5+
366
58
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
3,705
519
Germany
2,483
48
Poland
2,153
20
Italy
2,042
38
India
1,436
137
United Kingdom
1,407
108
France
1,317
51
Spain
1,283
46
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, 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.