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
6
Open Page Rank 8+
124
54
Open Page Rank 7+
216
193
Open Page Rank 6+
260
349
Open Page Rank 5+
287
571
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
771
3,253
India
794
1,454
United Kingdom
521
1,507
Canada
418
1,381
Germany
623
881
France
590
825
Australia
306
990
Spain
488
745
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | GitLab | Help Scout |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.