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
1,023
69,463
United Kingdom
387
21,866
Japan
230
17,420
India
692
16,890
France
421
15,318
Canada
300
15,134
Spain
362
14,392
Italy
298
12,861
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Essential Blocks | MonsterInsights |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 2.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 ms | 1200 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Essential Blocks to MonsterInsights
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| seriesporelas.com.br | May 2026 |
| brechando.com | Feb 2026 |
| afriklens.com | Feb 2026 |
| electrofisiatria.com | Nov 2025 |
| martcenter.com.mx | Nov 2025 |
| mobilize-montgomery.com | Nov 2025 |
| orchidtree.in | Sep 2025 |
| englishteacherkay.net | Sep 2025 |
| pedaleprosa.com.br | Sep 2025 |
MonsterInsights to Essential Blocks
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| ourguwahati.com | Jun 2026 |
| churnsolution.com | Mar 2026 |
| homeandplate.com | Feb 2026 |
| msmotor.pl | Jan 2026 |
| carrytoclutch.com | Dec 2025 |
| seriesporelas.com.br | Dec 2025 |
| escapeadulthood.com | Aug 2025 |
| lifeartschool.co.za | Jul 2025 |
| paolacontadina.it | Jul 2025 |
| candombledesmistificado.com | Jul 2025 |