Mapbox GL JS vs OpenLayers
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Mapbox GL JS · OpenLayers · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Mapbox GL JS · OpenLayers · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
10,620
1,374
Germany
4,348
2,633
France
4,583
1,376
United Kingdom
3,879
967
Spain
2,840
1,093
India
2,887
697
Italy
2,573
910
Netherlands
2,554
859
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mapbox GL JS | OpenLayers |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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.
Mapbox GL JS to OpenLayers
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| newsensepvtltd.com | Jan 2026 |
| corporacionjaracordova.com | Jan 2026 |
| homeselect.com | Oct 2025 |
| jakarta.go.id | Jul 2025 |
OpenLayers to Mapbox GL JS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| investur.com.br | Feb 2026 |
| explorect.org | Nov 2025 |