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+
1
8
Open Page Rank 7+
4
21
Open Page Rank 6+
5
45
Open Page Rank 5+
8
123
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
43
12,888
United Kingdom
26
4,124
Canada
25
3,803
India
22
2,722
Australia
18
2,655
France
14
2,018
Germany
15
1,765
Spain
13
1,280
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nift | Smile |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 125 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0.05 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 500 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.