RSS vs Spotify Web API
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
RSS · Spotify Web API · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
181
3
Open Page Rank 8+
3,566
4
Open Page Rank 7+
16,531
9
Open Page Rank 6+
35,345
14
Open Page Rank 5+
69,395
33
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
RSS · Spotify Web API · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,004,186
195
India
387,591
72
Germany
374,574
76
Japan
368,498
38
United Kingdom
325,245
82
France
320,975
59
Italy
302,692
56
Brazil
292,059
63
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | RSS | Spotify Web API |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.1 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 50 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1100 ms | 900 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.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
RSS to Spotify Web API
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| hitsdistrict.com | Apr 2026 |
| bongminesentertainment.com | Feb 2026 |
| negocioseguroaig.com.br | Nov 2025 |
| bestenglish.sk | Aug 2025 |