AppNexus vs Google AdSense

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

205,423
websites
vs
2,251,071
websites

Top sites by authority

AppNexus · Google AdSense · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 41 41
Open Page Rank 8+ 670 704
Open Page Rank 7+ 2,747 3,297
Open Page Rank 6+ 5,157 6,881
Open Page Rank 5+ 8,426 12,836

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

By country

AppNexus · Google AdSense · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 55,306 116,489
India 18,466 87,419
Japan 9,836 86,744
United Kingdom 25,318 53,239
Germany 18,026 51,378
Canada 24,555 43,069
France 17,057 50,047
Brazil 12,250 49,841

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

Real user performance

Metric AppNexus Google AdSense
LCP 1.9 s 2.1 s
INP 100 ms 75 ms
CLS 0.05 0
TTFB 800 ms 900 ms

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.

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