Google Analytics vs Statcounter

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 1,603,337

11,262

Japan 649,985

1,247

India 585,808

5,116

United Kingdom 519,934

4,194

Brazil 441,421

2,376

France 412,957

2,083

Germany 381,385

2,147

Canada 371,221

2,837

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, 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.

All Google Analytics sites · All Statcounter sites