D3 vs particles.js

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

Top sites by authority

D3 · particles.js · 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

D3 · particles.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 9,879

18,715

India 6,430

21,257

Brazil 4,320

14,094

Germany 4,592

8,529

France 3,925

8,535

United Kingdom 4,790

6,666

Indonesia 4,020

7,306

Italy 3,410

7,744

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 D3 sites · All particles.js sites