KaTeX vs Raphael
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
KaTeX · Raphael · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
26
14
Open Page Rank 8+
159
172
Open Page Rank 7+
392
513
Open Page Rank 6+
587
875
Open Page Rank 5+
804
1,309
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
KaTeX · Raphael · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,351
5,895
India
2,409
3,584
Japan
1,079
4,335
France
905
3,777
Spain
816
3,507
Germany
1,122
2,769
Italy
787
3,069
United Kingdom
1,082
2,646
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | KaTeX | Raphael |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 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.