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 14,592

71,685

India 7,618

57,063

Germany 18,363

34,846

France 20,469

26,849

Brazil 7,957

32,677

Russia 5,053

33,629

United Kingdom 8,125

29,881

Italy 10,523

25,439

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, 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.

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