Gameball vs Smile
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Gameball · Smile · 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+
2
8
Open Page Rank 7+
2
21
Open Page Rank 6+
2
44
Open Page Rank 5+
3
114
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Gameball · Smile · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
221
12,917
United Kingdom
89
4,118
Canada
96
3,815
India
86
2,786
Australia
77
2,699
France
113
2,007
Germany
72
1,765
Spain
55
1,232
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Gameball | Smile |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 500 ms | 500 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Gameball to Smile
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| keenfootwear.sg | May 2026 |
| cbd-tenerife.com | Dec 2025 |
| flimpauto.com | Sep 2025 |