Google Publisher Tag vs Taboola

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

261,022
websites
vs
105,399
websites

Top sites by authority

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

Open Page Rank 9+ 70 32
Open Page Rank 8+ 1,185 424
Open Page Rank 7+ 5,440 1,589
Open Page Rank 6+ 10,495 2,827
Open Page Rank 5+ 17,037 4,363

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 · Taboola · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 77,333 20,103
United Kingdom 40,696 10,557
Canada 41,155 9,943
India 32,440 10,256
Germany 31,191 9,664
France 29,042 8,457
Australia 27,204 7,109
Spain 26,508 7,311

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

Real user performance

Metric Google Publisher Tag Taboola
LCP 1.9 s 2.1 s
INP 100 ms 125 ms
CLS 0.05 0
TTFB 800 ms 700 ms

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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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