Less vs PWA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Less · PWA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
200
Open Page Rank 8+
36
3,769
Open Page Rank 7+
123
16,660
Open Page Rank 6+
222
33,166
Open Page Rank 5+
367
58,137
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Less · PWA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,139
357,909
Germany
1,374
186,412
Brazil
567
178,007
India
1,638
172,788
United Kingdom
966
151,800
France
2,427
131,196
Italy
863
105,713
Canada
818
103,719
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Less | PWA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Less to PWA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| realtas.com.br | Aug 2026 |
| ultrazdravje.si | May 2026 |
| tfoa.eu | May 2026 |
| datayaan.com | Jan 2026 |
| skdesu.com | Jan 2026 |
| m3group.pl | Dec 2025 |
| riosaude.rio.br | Sep 2025 |
| losnidosdedavid.com | Sep 2025 |
| uoj.edu.pk | Sep 2025 |
PWA to Less
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| only-shoes.shop | Jun 2026 |
| vianmo.com | Jun 2026 |
| dbzr.ca | May 2026 |
| kiub.fr | Feb 2026 |
| oeildexperts.org | Jan 2026 |
| farmantibiotics.org | Dec 2025 |
| 330ohms.com | Oct 2025 |