Essential Blocks vs MonsterInsights

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

Top sites by authority

Essential Blocks · MonsterInsights · 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

Essential Blocks · MonsterInsights · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 891

60,797

United Kingdom 345

18,437

Japan 199

14,750

India 596

14,252

Canada 253

12,647

France 330

12,240

Spain 300

11,858

Italy 254

10,704

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 Essential Blocks sites · All MonsterInsights sites