Google AdSense vs PubMatic

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

Top sites by authority

Google AdSense · PubMatic · 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 AdSense · PubMatic · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 131,437

44,220

India 99,010

16,668

Japan 99,382

9,301

United Kingdom 60,052

23,614

Canada 50,721

24,571

Germany 58,831

15,673

France 59,932

14,333

Indonesia 55,856

9,632

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 AdSense sites · All PubMatic sites