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+
38
5
Open Page Rank 8+
649
12
Open Page Rank 7+
2,684
13
Open Page Rank 6+
5,882
15
Open Page Rank 5+
12,397
20
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
191,744
140
India
94,995
92
Japan
73,790
43
Brazil
71,181
84
United Kingdom
64,452
75
France
63,629
60
Spain
63,132
47
Italy
58,351
51
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, Sep 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.