ActBlue vs GiveSmart
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ActBlue · GiveSmart · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
6
3
Open Page Rank 8+
16
12
Open Page Rank 7+
42
43
Open Page Rank 6+
72
69
Open Page Rank 5+
119
115
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ActBlue · GiveSmart · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,383
1,155
India
74
101
Canada
83
90
United Kingdom
76
68
Indonesia
84
42
Philippines
42
51
Australia
40
46
Mexico
46
38
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ActBlue | GiveSmart |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.5 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 700 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.
ActBlue to GiveSmart
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| gmantavern.com | Nov 2025 |
GiveSmart to ActBlue
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| arapahoedems.org | Jul 2025 |