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+
42
1
Open Page Rank 8+
691
6
Open Page Rank 7+
3,279
20
Open Page Rank 6+
6,856
30
Open Page Rank 5+
12,695
65
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
115,171
266
India
86,154
175
Japan
85,746
83
United Kingdom
52,541
287
Germany
50,132
218
France
48,998
216
Brazil
48,969
129
Indonesia
47,033
76
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Google AdSense | MainAd |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 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, 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.
Google AdSense to MainAd
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| fatbikeskopen.nl | Dec 2025 |
| missoma.com | Nov 2025 |
| bgmgirl.com | Oct 2025 |