Google Publisher Tag vs VerticalScope
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Google Publisher Tag · VerticalScope · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
70
0
Open Page Rank 8+
1,185
0
Open Page Rank 7+
5,440
2
Open Page Rank 6+
10,495
7
Open Page Rank 5+
17,037
27
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 · VerticalScope · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
77,333
1,101
Canada
41,155
726
United Kingdom
40,696
621
India
32,440
162
Germany
31,191
318
France
29,042
378
Australia
27,204
472
Spain
26,508
312
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Google Publisher Tag | VerticalScope |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 300 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.