Google AdSense vs MainAd
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Google AdSense · MainAd · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
41
2
Open Page Rank 8+
704
6
Open Page Rank 7+
3,297
26
Open Page Rank 6+
6,881
39
Open Page Rank 5+
12,836
76
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Google AdSense · MainAd · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
116,489
275
India
87,419
184
Japan
86,744
83
United Kingdom
53,239
297
Germany
51,378
236
France
50,047
235
Brazil
49,841
133
Indonesia
47,737
77
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Google AdSense | MainAd |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 150 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 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.
Google AdSense to MainAd
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| fatbikeskopen.nl | Dec 2025 |
| missoma.com | Nov 2025 |
| bgmgirl.com | Oct 2025 |