Google Analytics vs Simple Analytics

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

Top sites by authority

Google Analytics · Simple Analytics · 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 Analytics · Simple Analytics · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 1,630,450

1,445

Japan 653,829

267

India 590,092

855

United Kingdom 519,612

789

Brazil 448,348

432

France 410,196

631

Germany 390,976

712

Canada 372,528

508

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, 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.

All Google Analytics sites · All Simple Analytics sites