AppNexus vs District M
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AppNexus · District M · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
43
0
Open Page Rank 8+
646
0
Open Page Rank 7+
2,645
0
Open Page Rank 6+
4,923
1
Open Page Rank 5+
7,930
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
AppNexus · District M · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
53,163
101
United Kingdom
24,886
68
Canada
24,461
77
India
18,232
59
Germany
17,552
55
France
16,584
54
Australia
15,760
60
Spain
15,151
45
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AppNexus | District M |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 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.