GitLab vs Help Scout
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
GitLab · Help Scout · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
6
7
Open Page Rank 8+
118
54
Open Page Rank 7+
227
198
Open Page Rank 6+
277
356
Open Page Rank 5+
305
582
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
GitLab · Help Scout · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
739
3,275
India
799
1,490
United Kingdom
504
1,508
Canada
389
1,376
Germany
608
891
France
533
820
Australia
303
1,011
Spain
445
709
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitLab | Help Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 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.