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+
26
25
Open Page Rank 8+
159
271
Open Page Rank 7+
392
866
Open Page Rank 6+
587
1,469
Open Page Rank 5+
804
2,438
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
2,409
21,257
United States
2,351
18,715
Brazil
1,060
14,094
Germany
1,122
8,529
France
905
8,535
Italy
787
7,744
Indonesia
1,163
7,306
United Kingdom
1,082
6,666
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, 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.
KaTeX to particles.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| verame.it | Jan 2026 |
particles.js to KaTeX
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| simakara.id | Oct 2025 |