Google Plus vs Twitter

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

134,409
websites, to Nov 2021
vs
601,221
websites

Detections for Google Plus end in Nov 2021. 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 Plus · Twitter · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 0 74
Open Page Rank 8+ 0 921
Open Page Rank 7+ 0 2,931
Open Page Rank 6+ 0 4,991
Open Page Rank 5+ 0 8,097

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Google Plus · Twitter · share of sites in each country using one or the other

Japan 3,332 69,105
United States 6,725 48,295
United Kingdom 3,783 22,369
India 3,808 20,937
Canada 3,406 16,764
Spain 2,975 15,311
France 3,091 14,397
Germany 3,599 12,669

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric Google Plus Twitter
LCP 1.9 s 1.8 s
INP 75 ms 50 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 800 ms 700 ms

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.

Google Plus to Twitter

DomainWhen
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