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+
4
10
Open Page Rank 8+
52
25
Open Page Rank 7+
176
51
Open Page Rank 6+
310
74
Open Page Rank 5+
502
103
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
2,554
347
India
2,119
233
Indonesia
1,436
154
Brazil
1,274
159
Germany
1,244
182
United Kingdom
1,233
179
France
1,132
152
Vietnam
1,093
105
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitBook | Starlight |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 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, 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.