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
7
Open Page Rank 8+
105
41
Open Page Rank 7+
302
80
Open Page Rank 6+
499
113
Open Page Rank 5+
745
152
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
2,332
508
India
1,772
448
United Kingdom
1,314
298
Germany
1,274
299
France
1,152
293
Brazil
1,135
260
Indonesia
1,067
260
Canada
1,074
251
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Docusaurus | Sphinx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 600 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.
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 |