Microsoft Authentication vs NextAuth.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Microsoft Authentication · NextAuth.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
3
9
Open Page Rank 8+
20
122
Open Page Rank 7+
50
428
Open Page Rank 6+
80
796
Open Page Rank 5+
120
1,238
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Microsoft Authentication · NextAuth.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
395
6,102
India
304
4,862
Brazil
194
3,411
United Kingdom
228
3,094
Germany
190
3,035
France
186
2,796
Canada
211
2,570
Indonesia
148
2,632
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Microsoft Authentication | NextAuth.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 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.