DirectAdmin vs Plesk
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
DirectAdmin · Plesk · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
13
Open Page Rank 8+
0
278
Open Page Rank 7+
0
1,127
Open Page Rank 6+
0
2,455
Open Page Rank 5+
0
5,452
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
DirectAdmin · Plesk · share of sites in each country using one or the other
Spain
2
76,687
Italy
0
63,173
Germany
1
61,524
United States
1
52,615
France
0
44,393
Türkiye
1
42,108
United Kingdom
1
38,839
India
1
38,741
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | DirectAdmin | Plesk |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 37 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.03 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 ms |
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.