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+
14
10
Open Page Rank 8+
81
25
Open Page Rank 7+
161
51
Open Page Rank 6+
243
74
Open Page Rank 5+
324
103
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
1,122
347
India
784
233
Germany
653
182
United Kingdom
613
179
France
567
152
Brazil
541
159
Japan
519
169
Canada
524
154
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, 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.
MkDocs to Starlight
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| mindomo.com | Jul 2025 |