Ad Lightning vs Microsoft Advertising

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

3,746
websites
vs
1,040,421
websites

Top sites by authority

Ad Lightning · Microsoft Advertising · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 3 108
Open Page Rank 8+ 60 2,055
Open Page Rank 7+ 181 8,925
Open Page Rank 6+ 332 18,225
Open Page Rank 5+ 539 32,802

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Ad Lightning · Microsoft Advertising · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 3,043 194,280
Italy 755 120,089
Germany 983 109,223
United Kingdom 1,644 96,386
France 1,008 85,328
Netherlands 854 71,387
India 1,004 66,986
Canada 1,824 64,841

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric Ad Lightning Microsoft Advertising
LCP 1.6 s 1.9 s
INP 125 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 400 ms 800 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.

Ad Lightning to Microsoft Advertising

DomainWhen
cpioneer.comFeb 2026

Microsoft Advertising to Ad Lightning

DomainWhen
satelliteguys.usSep 2025

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