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+
5
6
Open Page Rank 8+
123
52
Open Page Rank 7+
248
205
Open Page Rank 6+
298
371
Open Page Rank 5+
327
604
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
824
3,658
India
866
1,730
United Kingdom
561
1,739
Canada
450
1,609
Germany
708
1,061
France
644
1,037
Australia
321
1,177
Spain
534
859
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, 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.