Open Graph vs Websocket
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Open Graph · Websocket · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
277
1
Open Page Rank 8+
5,997
5
Open Page Rank 7+
32,981
12
Open Page Rank 6+
75,286
20
Open Page Rank 5+
150,107
28
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Open Graph · Websocket · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,859,885
233
India
666,509
168
Germany
624,387
164
Japan
610,428
95
United Kingdom
596,006
141
Brazil
543,832
113
France
527,705
166
Italy
436,871
148
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Open Graph | Websocket |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 150 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 900 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.