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
296
Open Page Rank 7+
98
893
Open Page Rank 6+
120
1,513
Open Page Rank 5+
154
2,509
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
335
24,611
United States
458
21,297
Brazil
215
15,388
France
209
10,517
Germany
258
9,736
Italy
190
9,293
Indonesia
193
8,580
Spain
173
8,159
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Mermaid | particles.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.7 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1300 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 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 |
|---|---|
| bimstudies.com | Feb 2026 |