Help Scout vs Instatus
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Help Scout · Instatus · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
7
5
Open Page Rank 8+
57
14
Open Page Rank 7+
196
38
Open Page Rank 6+
356
64
Open Page Rank 5+
576
98
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Help Scout · Instatus · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
3,253
317
United Kingdom
1,507
202
India
1,454
241
Canada
1,381
172
Australia
990
136
Germany
881
174
France
825
162
Spain
745
150
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Help Scout | Instatus |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 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.