Fastly vs Google Hosted Libraries

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

Top sites by authority

Fastly · 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

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

United States 34,803

327,264

Japan 5,468

267,213

India 12,125

124,044

United Kingdom 8,477

114,905

Canada 8,438

83,462

France 5,805

83,126

Germany 6,336

74,359

Brazil 6,481

72,218

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, 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.

Sites that switched

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

All Fastly sites · All Google Hosted Libraries sites