KaTeX vs particles.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
KaTeX · particles.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
24
26
Open Page Rank 8+
157
256
Open Page Rank 7+
393
827
Open Page Rank 6+
587
1,418
Open Page Rank 5+
810
2,335
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
KaTeX · particles.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
2,471
20,741
United States
2,473
18,320
Brazil
1,105
13,488
France
1,011
8,911
Germany
1,164
8,448
Italy
871
8,367
Spain
939
7,458
Indonesia
1,255
7,019
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | KaTeX | particles.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1300 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.
KaTeX to particles.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| verame.it | Jan 2026 |
particles.js to KaTeX
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| simakara.id | Oct 2025 |