Mapbox.js vs OpenLayers
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Mapbox.js · OpenLayers · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
15
7
Open Page Rank 8+
112
112
Open Page Rank 7+
275
287
Open Page Rank 6+
451
458
Open Page Rank 5+
729
645
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Mapbox.js · OpenLayers · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
7,507
1,171
Germany
1,216
2,137
United Kingdom
2,204
810
France
1,720
1,136
Spain
1,034
986
India
1,309
627
Canada
1,330
531
Italy
987
761
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mapbox.js | OpenLayers |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 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.
Mapbox.js to OpenLayers
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| newsensepvtltd.com | Jan 2026 |