Real-user dataset · Monthly release
Google Chrome UX Report
Google's own popularity tiers, taken from how real Chrome users browse, used as a cross-check on Tranco.
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- Since
- 2017
- We refresh it
- Monthly release
What Google Chrome UX Report is
The Chrome User Experience Report is Google's public dataset of how real Chrome users experience the web. Alongside its performance metrics it publishes a monthly popularity ranking of the top million origins, grouped into magnitude tiers: the top 1,000, the top 5,000, the top 10,000, and so on down to the top million.
We read the tiers from the openly licensed crux-top-lists mirror, which republishes the ranking from Google's BigQuery dataset in a form that can be downloaded without a cloud account.
Why we rely on it
- The data comes from real Chrome users who opted into usage reporting, so it reflects actual browsing rather than a model.
- It is Google's own measurement, published openly and on a fixed monthly schedule.
- Because it is produced independently of Tranco, agreement between the two is a genuine cross-check, and disagreement is a flag worth looking into.
What we take from it
- Popularity tier
- The band each site falls into, shown on its profile and on the sites list next to the Tranco rank.
- A sanity check
- When a site's Tranco rank and its Chrome tier tell different stories, we say so rather than picking the flattering one.
What it cannot tell us
- The tiers are deliberately coarse. A site in the top 500,000 could be anywhere inside that band.
- It measures Chrome users who share usage data, so browser mix matters at the margins.
- It is monthly, so it lags a fast-moving site by a few weeks.
Where you will see it on this site
Cited as Google's Chrome UX Report, with the month it covers, on:
The source itself
This is the only page on the site that links out to Google Chrome UX Report. Everywhere else, a citation links here instead, so the context travels with the number.
Visit developer.chrome.com/docs/crux →The other sources
Written by Hunter Gray, Founder, Owner & Writer. Top AI Girlfriends is not affiliated with Google Chrome UX Report. How all the sources fit together is on the methodology page; the data in use is on the best AI girlfriend ranking.