Base vs Shopify
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Base · Shopify · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
36
Open Page Rank 8+
7
361
Open Page Rank 7+
14
1,434
Open Page Rank 6+
17
3,004
Open Page Rank 5+
28
6,078
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Base · Shopify · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
30
233,179
United Kingdom
10
83,178
India
13
76,557
Canada
10
65,017
Germany
10
56,631
Australia
11
55,351
France
10
48,734
Italy
7
35,950
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Base | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 500 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.
Base to Shopify
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| osumac.com | Sep 2025 |