Akamai mPulse vs Pingdom RUM

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

Top sites by authority

Akamai mPulse · Pingdom RUM · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

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

By country

Akamai mPulse · Pingdom RUM · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 12,006

3,767

India 5,168

1,965

United Kingdom 4,823

2,117

Indonesia 5,405

888

Canada 4,420

1,814

Germany 4,392

1,471

France 3,933

1,339

Spain 3,734

1,240

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

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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.

All Akamai mPulse sites · All Pingdom RUM sites