Docusaurus vs Sphinx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Docusaurus · Sphinx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
12
6
Open Page Rank 8+
102
32
Open Page Rank 7+
289
71
Open Page Rank 6+
482
96
Open Page Rank 5+
724
131
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Docusaurus · Sphinx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,136
423
India
1,680
378
United Kingdom
1,154
232
Germany
1,124
242
Brazil
1,051
224
France
1,008
235
Canada
983
227
Indonesia
971
211
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Docusaurus | Sphinx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Sphinx to Docusaurus
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| esphome.io | Oct 2025 |