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+
276
1
Open Page Rank 8+
6,000
5
Open Page Rank 7+
33,096
13
Open Page Rank 6+
75,611
22
Open Page Rank 5+
150,933
31
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
1,888,853
243
India
663,379
166
Germany
633,567
178
Japan
613,377
99
United Kingdom
593,100
155
Brazil
547,908
116
France
518,319
177
Italy
418,507
154
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Open Graph | Websocket |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.3 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, 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.