GitBook vs Starlight
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GitBook · Starlight · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
10
Open Page Rank 8+
50
28
Open Page Rank 7+
171
55
Open Page Rank 6+
294
83
Open Page Rank 5+
484
119
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
GitBook · Starlight · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,277
350
India
1,858
251
Indonesia
1,206
158
Brazil
1,142
172
United Kingdom
1,083
178
Germany
1,080
175
France
937
140
Canada
895
141
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitBook | Starlight |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 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.