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
5
Open Page Rank 8+
102
32
Open Page Rank 7+
295
72
Open Page Rank 6+
485
99
Open Page Rank 5+
721
140
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
2,084
430
India
1,660
391
United Kingdom
1,139
233
Germany
1,113
247
Brazil
1,054
237
France
959
225
Canada
954
209
Indonesia
913
213
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, Aug 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 |