Extole vs ReferralCandy
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Extole · ReferralCandy · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
2
Open Page Rank 8+
9
3
Open Page Rank 7+
32
6
Open Page Rank 6+
67
7
Open Page Rank 5+
90
16
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Extole · ReferralCandy · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
377
274
Canada
240
105
India
246
88
United Kingdom
202
126
Mexico
200
39
Germany
160
72
Australia
164
65
Philippines
186
34
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Extole | ReferralCandy |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 150 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0.03 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 600 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.