Canvas LMS vs Moodle
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Canvas LMS · Moodle · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
15
Open Page Rank 8+
22
337
Open Page Rank 7+
32
1,249
Open Page Rank 6+
41
2,122
Open Page Rank 5+
49
3,103
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Canvas LMS · Moodle · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
189
5,896
India
135
4,485
Spain
81
4,324
Indonesia
102
4,250
Brazil
85
3,704
Mexico
98
3,679
Germany
79
3,406
United Kingdom
101
3,200
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Canvas LMS | Moodle |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 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.