Mermaid vs particles.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Mermaid · particles.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
9
25
Open Page Rank 8+
45
271
Open Page Rank 7+
88
866
Open Page Rank 6+
110
1,469
Open Page Rank 5+
140
2,438
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Mermaid · particles.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
290
21,257
United States
392
18,715
Brazil
203
14,094
Germany
213
8,529
France
171
8,535
Italy
161
7,744
Indonesia
172
7,306
Spain
153
6,931
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mermaid | particles.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.6 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1300 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
particles.js to Mermaid
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| rxharun.com | Jul 2026 |
| bimstudies.com | Feb 2026 |