GitBook vs MkDocs
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GitBook · MkDocs · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
14
Open Page Rank 8+
52
81
Open Page Rank 7+
176
161
Open Page Rank 6+
310
243
Open Page Rank 5+
502
324
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
GitBook · MkDocs · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,554
1,122
India
2,119
784
Indonesia
1,436
503
Germany
1,244
653
United Kingdom
1,233
613
Brazil
1,274
541
France
1,132
567
Canada
1,021
524
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitBook | MkDocs |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 100 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.