Epoch vs Raphael
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Epoch · Raphael · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
17
Open Page Rank 8+
0
196
Open Page Rank 7+
2
557
Open Page Rank 6+
2
929
Open Page Rank 5+
3
1,381
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Epoch · Raphael · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
15
6,767
Japan
5
4,906
France
10
4,623
Spain
8
4,134
India
12
4,057
Italy
5
3,679
Germany
7
3,199
United Kingdom
9
3,001
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Epoch | Raphael |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 62 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.