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+
47
3
Open Page Rank 8+
689
8
Open Page Rank 7+
2,812
11
Open Page Rank 6+
5,269
14
Open Page Rank 5+
8,688
27
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
63,153
1,273
United Kingdom
28,394
839
Canada
28,277
640
India
21,189
1,394
Germany
20,086
991
France
20,122
943
Australia
18,205
461
Spain
17,003
587
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | AppNexus | TrafficStars |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 150 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 1000 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.
TrafficStars to AppNexus
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| twickerz.com | Oct 2025 |