Better Stack vs Help Scout
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Better Stack · Help Scout · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
7
Open Page Rank 8+
1
54
Open Page Rank 7+
5
198
Open Page Rank 6+
12
356
Open Page Rank 5+
18
582
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Better Stack · Help Scout · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
142
3,275
United Kingdom
92
1,508
India
98
1,490
Canada
74
1,376
Australia
63
1,011
Germany
77
891
France
65
820
Philippines
53
725
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Better Stack | Help Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 700 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.