PhotoSwipe vs SmugMug
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
PhotoSwipe · SmugMug · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
30
0
Open Page Rank 8+
420
8
Open Page Rank 7+
1,274
29
Open Page Rank 6+
2,361
46
Open Page Rank 5+
4,177
58
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
PhotoSwipe · SmugMug · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
99,979
519
Germany
36,234
48
United Kingdom
27,216
108
Italy
26,980
38
India
26,599
137
France
26,166
51
Spain
22,792
46
Canada
17,949
100
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | PhotoSwipe | SmugMug |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0.05 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 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.