Contact Form 7 vs Image Placeholders

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

Top sites by authority

Contact Form 7 · Image Placeholders · 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

Contact Form 7 · Image Placeholders · share of sites in each country using one or the other

Japan 199,815

695

United States 181,373

3,512

India 113,364

1,472

Italy 105,059

839

Germany 97,345

1,271

Spain 87,110

832

France 82,899

1,228

United Kingdom 78,201

1,275

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 Contact Form 7 sites · All Image Placeholders sites