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+
6,012
4
Open Page Rank 7+
33,153
11
Open Page Rank 6+
75,837
19
Open Page Rank 5+
151,511
27
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
2,082,596
289
India
726,293
198
Japan
698,120
133
Germany
697,460
202
United Kingdom
666,057
189
France
606,133
202
Brazil
559,555
137
Italy
476,056
185
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Open Graph | Websocket |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 150 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 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.