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+
2
1
Open Page Rank 7+
5
6
Open Page Rank 6+
6
8
Open Page Rank 5+
15
13
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
232
188
United Kingdom
106
115
India
86
105
Canada
91
84
Germany
64
61
Australia
63
59
France
48
57
Italy
44
54
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, Aug 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.