Babel vs PWA

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

905,714
websites
vs
3,730,550
websites

Top sites by authority

Babel · PWA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 102 200
Open Page Rank 8+ 1,362 3,769
Open Page Rank 7+ 4,168 16,660
Open Page Rank 6+ 6,847 33,166
Open Page Rank 5+ 10,236 58,137

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

By country

Babel · PWA · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 83,329 357,909
Germany 30,345 186,412
India 28,854 172,788
Brazil 20,620 178,007
United Kingdom 30,044 151,800
France 23,648 131,196
Italy 22,178 105,713
Canada 22,829 103,719

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

Real user performance

Metric Babel PWA
LCP 1.8 s 1.9 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 700 ms 700 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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