Google Ads vs Google Publisher Tag

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

Top sites by authority

Google Ads · Google Publisher Tag · 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

Google Ads · Google Publisher Tag · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 8,366

77,333

Canada 2,713

41,155

United Kingdom 2,756

40,696

Japan 24,084

18,382

India 2,768

32,440

Germany 1,990

31,191

France 1,963

29,042

Australia 2,182

27,204

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, Jun 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 Google Ads sites · All Google Publisher Tag sites