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
4
Open Page Rank 8+
54
13
Open Page Rank 7+
198
37
Open Page Rank 6+
356
62
Open Page Rank 5+
582
97
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
3,275
312
India
1,490
241
United Kingdom
1,508
197
Canada
1,376
166
Australia
1,011
137
Germany
891
181
France
820
165
Philippines
725
135
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Help Scout | Instatus |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2 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.