Ad Lightning vs Microsoft Advertising

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

4,061
websites
vs
1,137,232
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+ 5 110
Open Page Rank 8+ 63 2,103
Open Page Rank 7+ 182 9,163
Open Page Rank 6+ 331 18,722
Open Page Rank 5+ 530 33,655

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 2,752 180,700
Italy 642 113,422
Germany 830 98,787
United Kingdom 1,490 87,840
France 801 76,969
Netherlands 717 64,450
India 931 59,005
Canada 1,609 57,987

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 0.05 0
TTFB 400 ms 800 ms

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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
gofobo.comJul 2026
bowling.comJul 2026
cpioneer.comFeb 2026

Microsoft Advertising to Ad Lightning

DomainWhen
thenarrativematters.comJul 2026

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