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+
31
0
Open Page Rank 8+
408
6
Open Page Rank 7+
1,277
28
Open Page Rank 6+
2,401
45
Open Page Rank 5+
4,313
61
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
111,991
565
Germany
39,891
55
Italy
31,372
48
United Kingdom
31,146
131
France
30,729
71
India
30,218
161
Spain
25,779
61
Canada
20,508
110
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, 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.