Medium vs Virgool
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Medium · Virgool · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
4
0
Open Page Rank 8+
23
0
Open Page Rank 7+
47
1
Open Page Rank 6+
72
1
Open Page Rank 5+
103
1
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Medium · Virgool · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,031
11
India
904
8
United Kingdom
621
10
Canada
537
10
Brazil
501
8
Indonesia
500
6
France
491
10
Germany
481
12
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Medium | Virgool |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 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.