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+
6
0
Open Page Rank 8+
35
0
Open Page Rank 7+
89
1
Open Page Rank 6+
125
1
Open Page Rank 5+
177
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
1,030
11
India
904
9
United Kingdom
616
11
Canada
530
10
Brazil
515
6
Indonesia
500
8
Germany
494
11
France
480
10
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Medium | Virgool |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 2.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 137 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.