Friendbuy vs ReferralCandy
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Friendbuy · 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+
4
2
Open Page Rank 7+
15
5
Open Page Rank 6+
46
6
Open Page Rank 5+
81
15
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Friendbuy · ReferralCandy · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
456
232
Canada
320
91
India
285
86
United Kingdom
259
106
Australia
191
63
Germany
154
64
Mexico
161
29
Philippines
152
36
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Friendbuy | ReferralCandy |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 125 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.