cPanel vs DirectAdmin
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
cPanel · DirectAdmin · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
0
Open Page Rank 8+
5
0
Open Page Rank 7+
12
0
Open Page Rank 6+
20
0
Open Page Rank 5+
32
0
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
cPanel · DirectAdmin · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
121
1
India
107
1
Indonesia
83
1
United Kingdom
69
1
Bangladesh
67
1
Pakistan
65
1
Germany
62
1
Brazil
61
1
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | cPanel | DirectAdmin |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 37 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 700 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.