Intersection Observer vs Turbolinks
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Intersection Observer · Turbolinks · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
16
Open Page Rank 8+
21
149
Open Page Rank 7+
59
373
Open Page Rank 6+
88
603
Open Page Rank 5+
140
866
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Intersection Observer · Turbolinks · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
490
4,922
Japan
3,663
1,236
Indonesia
256
2,791
India
493
2,266
United Kingdom
318
2,021
Germany
272
1,917
France
396
1,587
Brazil
167
1,777
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Intersection Observer | Turbolinks |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 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.