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+
12
2
Open Page Rank 7+
33
5
Open Page Rank 6+
68
6
Open Page Rank 5+
91
15
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
332
232
Canada
220
91
India
214
86
United Kingdom
179
106
Australia
143
63
Germany
134
64
Mexico
167
29
Philippines
145
36
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 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 ms |
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.