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+
9
89
Open Page Rank 8+
27
1,073
Open Page Rank 7+
50
3,743
Open Page Rank 6+
75
6,936
Open Page Rank 5+
118
11,485
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
406
46,817
United Kingdom
200
24,858
India
277
21,112
Canada
169
21,181
Germany
192
20,356
France
156
18,702
Spain
143
16,859
Italy
128
15,617
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Starlight | Zendesk |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.4 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, Oct 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.