AdThrive vs Google Publisher Tag

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

8,551
websites
vs
261,022
websites

Top sites by authority

AdThrive · Google Publisher Tag · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 1 70
Open Page Rank 8+ 22 1,185
Open Page Rank 7+ 213 5,440
Open Page Rank 6+ 577 10,495
Open Page Rank 5+ 1,262 17,037

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

By country

AdThrive · Google Publisher Tag · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 7,215 77,333
Canada 5,498 41,155
United Kingdom 4,955 40,696
India 3,486 32,440
Germany 2,629 31,191
Australia 4,200 27,204
France 2,113 29,042
Spain 1,578 26,508

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

Real user performance

Metric AdThrive Google Publisher Tag
LCP 1.6 s 1.9 s
INP 125 ms 100 ms
CLS 0.05 0.05
TTFB 700 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.

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