Babel vs RSS

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

Top sites by authority

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

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

By country

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

United States 83,329

887,410

India 28,854

336,391

Germany 30,345

333,621

Japan 20,457

319,148

United Kingdom 30,044

282,220

France 23,648

267,086

Brazil 20,620

265,509

Italy 22,178

258,995

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

Real user performance

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.

All Babel sites · All RSS sites