ReferralCandy vs Viral Loops
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ReferralCandy · Viral Loops · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
1
Open Page Rank 8+
3
2
Open Page Rank 7+
6
7
Open Page Rank 6+
7
10
Open Page Rank 5+
16
16
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ReferralCandy · Viral Loops · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
274
216
United Kingdom
126
136
India
88
126
Canada
105
91
Germany
72
69
Australia
65
63
France
55
69
Italy
45
59
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ReferralCandy | Viral Loops |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 600 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.