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+
10
26
Open Page Rank 8+
47
256
Open Page Rank 7+
88
827
Open Page Rank 6+
109
1,418
Open Page Rank 5+
141
2,335
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
296
20,741
United States
397
18,320
Brazil
196
13,488
France
179
8,911
Germany
213
8,448
Italy
178
8,367
Spain
162
7,458
Indonesia
182
7,019
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, 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.
particles.js to Mermaid
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| rxharun.com | Jul 2026 |
| bimstudies.com | Feb 2026 |