Absorb vs LearnDash
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Absorb · LearnDash · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
1
41
Open Page Rank 7+
8
106
Open Page Rank 6+
27
222
Open Page Rank 5+
39
397
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Absorb · LearnDash · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
207
3,573
India
104
1,287
United Kingdom
82
1,255
Spain
46
1,288
Canada
112
1,155
Mexico
57
903
Australia
62
738
Italy
46
701
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Absorb | LearnDash |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.