Site Kit vs W3Counter
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Site Kit · W3Counter · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
39
5
Open Page Rank 8+
636
12
Open Page Rank 7+
2,691
16
Open Page Rank 6+
5,912
19
Open Page Rank 5+
12,410
25
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Site Kit · W3Counter · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
194,442
140
India
96,669
94
Brazil
73,670
82
Japan
73,684
40
United Kingdom
63,934
73
France
62,421
58
Spain
58,678
48
Italy
55,218
53
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Site Kit | W3Counter |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.4 s | 2 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 ms | 900 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.