Nift vs Smile
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Nift · Smile · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
2
Open Page Rank 8+
0
7
Open Page Rank 7+
3
22
Open Page Rank 6+
5
45
Open Page Rank 5+
10
119
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Nift · Smile · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
55
14,279
United Kingdom
34
4,501
Canada
32
4,287
India
32
3,159
Australia
24
3,007
France
21
2,256
Germany
21
1,878
Mexico
24
1,330
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nift | Smile |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 125 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 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.