Prefix-Free vs PWA
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Prefix-Free · PWA · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
10
200
Open Page Rank 8+
56
3,769
Open Page Rank 7+
140
16,660
Open Page Rank 6+
224
33,166
Open Page Rank 5+
318
58,137
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Prefix-Free · PWA · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
2,140
357,909
Germany
1,053
186,412
Brazil
753
178,007
India
1,156
172,788
United Kingdom
892
151,800
France
808
131,196
Italy
655
105,713
Canada
860
103,719
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Prefix-Free | PWA |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.8 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.
Prefix-Free to PWA
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| taxpratico.com.br | Feb 2026 |
| peak-energy.gmbh | Oct 2025 |
| induselearn.com | Sep 2025 |
| larp.be | Sep 2025 |
PWA to Prefix-Free
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| oa.edu.ua | Oct 2025 |