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
44
Open Page Rank 5+
7
114
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
44
12,917
United Kingdom
26
4,118
Canada
26
3,815
India
26
2,786
Australia
20
2,699
France
16
2,007
Germany
17
1,765
Spain
14
1,232
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Nift | Smile |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.3 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, 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.