AppNexus vs TrafficStars
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
AppNexus · TrafficStars · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
43
3
Open Page Rank 8+
646
5
Open Page Rank 7+
2,645
7
Open Page Rank 6+
4,923
11
Open Page Rank 5+
7,930
21
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
AppNexus · TrafficStars · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
53,163
1,262
United Kingdom
24,886
819
Canada
24,461
607
India
18,232
1,423
Germany
17,552
988
France
16,584
878
Australia
15,760
473
Spain
15,151
561
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AppNexus | TrafficStars |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 150 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1100 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.
TrafficStars to AppNexus
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| twickerz.com | Oct 2025 |