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 24,225

287,105

Japan 4,548

228,419

India 7,992

107,539

United Kingdom 9,156

98,380

Canada 8,089

72,013

France 6,250

68,288

Germany 7,555

64,646

Brazil 5,225

64,908

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, 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.

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