Akamai vs Google Hosted Libraries

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Akamai · Google Hosted Libraries · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Akamai · Google Hosted Libraries · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 23,747

280,294

Japan 4,521

224,601

India 7,892

104,588

United Kingdom 9,080

98,930

Canada 7,991

71,082

France 6,238

68,026

Germany 7,431

62,234

Brazil 5,212

62,935

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Akamai sites · All Google Hosted Libraries sites