MkDocs vs Starlight
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MkDocs · Starlight · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
13
10
Open Page Rank 8+
73
28
Open Page Rank 7+
156
55
Open Page Rank 6+
228
83
Open Page Rank 5+
305
119
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
MkDocs · Starlight · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
978
350
India
722
251
Germany
548
175
United Kingdom
530
178
Brazil
477
172
Japan
431
168
France
451
140
Indonesia
432
158
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MkDocs | Starlight |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 ms | 500 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.