Google Maps vs Microsoft Azure Maps

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

Detections for Microsoft Azure Maps end in Aug 2023. The fingerprint catalog behind our crawls no longer carries that technology as its own entry, usually because it was retired or split into more specific ones, so its figure is the last recorded and is not directly comparable with a currently tracked technology.

Top sites by authority

Google Maps · Microsoft Azure Maps · 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 Maps · Microsoft Azure Maps · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 276,402

7

Japan 148,344

6

India 94,914

7

Brazil 83,854

6

United Kingdom 75,891

6

France 65,938

6

Italy 60,445

5

Spain 58,932

5

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.

All Google Maps sites · All Microsoft Azure Maps sites