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
112
Open Page Rank 6+
28
226
Open Page Rank 5+
40
405
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
204
3,549
India
105
1,326
United Kingdom
82
1,208
Canada
117
1,068
Spain
39
1,093
Mexico
58
841
Australia
65
763
Germany
45
669
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Absorb | LearnDash |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.8 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, 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.