RankMath SEO vs Speculative Loading

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

RankMath SEO · Speculative Loading · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

RankMath SEO · Speculative Loading · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 125,647

4,594

India 80,255

2,074

Germany 54,659

1,692

United Kingdom 43,847

1,932

France 41,204

1,602

Spain 41,448

1,131

Brazil 36,283

1,405

Italy 36,163

1,140

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

All RankMath SEO sites · All Speculative Loading sites