Starlight vs Zendesk
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Starlight · Zendesk · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
10
89
Open Page Rank 8+
28
1,075
Open Page Rank 7+
55
3,759
Open Page Rank 6+
83
6,998
Open Page Rank 5+
119
11,620
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Starlight · Zendesk · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
350
47,399
United Kingdom
178
25,088
India
251
22,237
Canada
141
21,429
Germany
175
20,616
France
140
18,921
Spain
125
16,321
Australia
120
15,693
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Starlight | Zendesk |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.3 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 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.