Debian vs Ubuntu

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Debian · Ubuntu · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Debian · Ubuntu · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 16,285

83,071

India 8,615

62,522

Germany 20,849

41,491

France 23,796

31,974

Brazil 8,670

35,577

United Kingdom 9,147

33,985

Italy 11,787

29,206

Russia 5,651

35,160

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Debian sites · All Ubuntu sites