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
10
Open Page Rank 8+
17
118
Open Page Rank 7+
45
426
Open Page Rank 6+
75
784
Open Page Rank 5+
115
1,221
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
352
5,751
India
267
4,605
Brazil
176
3,220
United Kingdom
202
2,848
Germany
158
2,792
France
147
2,438
Indonesia
122
2,370
Canada
183
2,295
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Microsoft Authentication | NextAuth.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 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, 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.