Protovis vs Raphael
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Protovis · Raphael · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
1
13
Open Page Rank 8+
1
167
Open Page Rank 7+
2
482
Open Page Rank 6+
2
826
Open Page Rank 5+
3
1,250
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Protovis · Raphael · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
4
5,902
Japan
2
4,344
France
5
3,814
Spain
2
3,691
India
4
3,515
Italy
4
3,163
Germany
4
2,748
United Kingdom
3
2,622
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Protovis | Raphael |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.