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+
36
6
Open Page Rank 8+
649
14
Open Page Rank 7+
2,698
18
Open Page Rank 6+
5,893
22
Open Page Rank 5+
12,351
27
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
215,676
156
India
110,602
104
Japan
82,773
51
Brazil
80,295
95
France
74,632
69
United Kingdom
72,179
90
Spain
67,753
59
Italy
63,679
71
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Site Kit | W3Counter |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.4 s | 2.1 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1300 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.