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+
2
1
Open Page Rank 8+
13
1
Open Page Rank 7+
36
3
Open Page Rank 6+
68
4
Open Page Rank 5+
88
11
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
334
232
Canada
222
90
India
216
86
United Kingdom
184
103
Mexico
174
32
Australia
145
60
Germany
138
61
France
133
48
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 | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.