Firebase vs MySQL

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

Top sites by authority

Firebase · MySQL · 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

Firebase · MySQL · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 26,814

938,170

Japan 17,162

432,168

Germany 9,842

365,652

India 24,552

349,914

United Kingdom 10,730

317,628

France 8,897

315,111

Italy 7,265

304,444

Spain 7,927

283,742

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, 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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Firebase sites · All MySQL sites