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+
16
7
Open Page Rank 8+
84
33
Open Page Rank 7+
161
68
Open Page Rank 6+
235
92
Open Page Rank 5+
304
124
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
978
423
India
722
378
Germany
541
242
United Kingdom
529
232
France
477
235
Brazil
482
224
Canada
458
227
Indonesia
428
211
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MkDocs | Sphinx |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.
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 |