Google Publisher Tag vs PubMatic

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

265,848
websites
vs
119,364
websites

Top sites by authority

Google Publisher Tag · PubMatic · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 72 40
Open Page Rank 8+ 1,186 508
Open Page Rank 7+ 5,411 2,181
Open Page Rank 6+ 10,428 4,123
Open Page Rank 5+ 16,880 6,799

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

By country

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

United States 69,673 39,516
United Kingdom 36,190 21,121
Canada 35,821 21,323
India 28,780 14,698
Germany 27,542 14,088
Australia 24,114 14,576
France 24,581 12,216
Spain 23,313 11,079

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

Real user performance

Metric Google Publisher Tag PubMatic
LCP 1.9 s 1.8 s
INP 100 ms 100 ms
CLS 0.05 0.05
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.

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