As of October 8, 2026, Hostgator is used by 159,796 websites in the TechLeads index: 0.99% of all US hosting detections, the 12th most-used of 229 US hosting technologies.
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TechLeads. "Hostgator Customers and Market Share." Data as of October 8, 2026. https://techleads.fyi/technology/hostgator/market-shareHTML link
<a href="https://techleads.fyi/technology/hostgator/market-share">Hostgator market share (TechLeads data)</a>Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all US hosting detections.
| # | Technology | Websites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cloudflare Hosting | 5,127,643 | 31.9% |
| 2 | Squarespace Hosted | 3,153,154 | 19.6% |
| 3 | GoDaddy | 2,745,334 | 17.1% |
| 4 | servers.com | 762,956 | 4.7% |
| 5 | Bluehost | 699,809 | 4.4% |
| 6 | Vercel | 690,138 | 4.3% |
| 7 | IONOS |
In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, Hostgator was detected on 252,997 pages in September 2026, down 18.8% from a year earlier (peak: 429,969). HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.
Same month, other Hosting technologies in HTTP Archive: GoDaddy 4,035,236, Hostinger 1,961,172, IONOS 727,428, Xserver 552,877, WordPress Multisite 446,552.
Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.
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TechLeads scans public websites and detects Hostgator from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Hostgator's website count divided by the website counts of all US hosting technologies we track; a site using two US hosting tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 8, 2026 and update daily.
| 349,945 |
| 2.2% |
| 8 | Sedo Hosting | 349,051 | 2.2% |
| 9 | WP Engine | 294,575 | 1.8% |
| 10 | Weebly Hosting | 210,763 | 1.3% |
| 11 | DreamHost Hosting | 192,607 | 1.2% |
| 12 | Hostgator | 159,796 | 0.99% |
| 13 | Ahosting | 149,796 | 0.93% |
| 14 | Kinsta | 96,643 | 0.60% |
| 15 | Digital Ocean | 91,025 | 0.57% |
| 16 | A2 Hosting | 78,215 | 0.49% |
| 17 | Cloudways | 73,640 | 0.46% |
| 18 | Imperva | 73,528 | 0.46% |
| 19 | Cargo Collective Hosted | 71,813 | 0.45% |
| 20 | Unified Layer | 60,371 | 0.38% |
| 21 | Flywheel | 57,186 | 0.36% |
Rows link to each competitor's market share page where one exists. The table lists the 21 most-used technologies; ranks are by website count.