MathJax vs Raphael
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
MathJax · Raphael · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
39
11
Open Page Rank 8+
605
163
Open Page Rank 7+
1,744
486
Open Page Rank 6+
2,693
841
Open Page Rank 5+
3,691
1,267
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
MathJax · Raphael · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
6,945
5,902
India
6,434
3,515
Japan
3,657
4,344
Spain
3,307
3,691
France
3,101
3,814
Germany
3,485
2,748
United Kingdom
3,454
2,622
Indonesia
3,740
2,254
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | MathJax | Raphael |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 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.