MkDocs vs Sphinx
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MkDocs · Sphinx · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
14
7
Open Page Rank 8+
81
41
Open Page Rank 7+
161
80
Open Page Rank 6+
243
113
Open Page Rank 5+
324
152
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
MkDocs · Sphinx · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,122
508
India
784
448
Germany
653
299
United Kingdom
613
298
France
567
293
Brazil
541
260
Japan
519
268
Canada
524
251
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MkDocs | Sphinx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 600 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Sphinx to MkDocs
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| tsuru.io | Dec 2025 |