Pygments vs RSS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Pygments · RSS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
7
181
Open Page Rank 8+
49
3,566
Open Page Rank 7+
92
16,531
Open Page Rank 6+
130
35,345
Open Page Rank 5+
181
69,395
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Pygments · RSS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
557
1,004,186
India
481
387,591
Germany
338
374,574
Japan
311
368,498
United Kingdom
334
325,245
France
329
320,975
Italy
282
302,692
Brazil
299
292,059
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Pygments | RSS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.6 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 1100 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.