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+
11
205
Open Page Rank 8+
57
3,752
Open Page Rank 7+
137
16,716
Open Page Rank 6+
231
33,308
Open Page Rank 5+
326
58,343
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
2,475
391,794
Germany
1,184
205,277
India
1,315
183,609
United Kingdom
1,041
168,139
Brazil
835
160,900
France
976
151,973
Italy
782
118,062
Canada
997
116,618
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, 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.
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 |
| larp.be | Sep 2025 |
| induselearn.com | Sep 2025 |
PWA to Prefix-Free
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| oa.edu.ua | Oct 2025 |