particles.js vs Paths.js
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
particles.js · Paths.js · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
25
1
Open Page Rank 8+
271
9
Open Page Rank 7+
866
16
Open Page Rank 6+
1,469
27
Open Page Rank 5+
2,438
40
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
particles.js · Paths.js · share of sites in each country using one or the other
India
21,257
182
United States
18,715
213
Brazil
14,094
113
Germany
8,529
110
France
8,535
100
Italy
7,744
93
Indonesia
7,306
79
Spain
6,931
89
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | particles.js | Paths.js |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.6 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 ms | 700 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
particles.js to Paths.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| velara.cc | Apr 2026 |