Fireblade vs Google Hosted Libraries
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Fireblade · Google Hosted Libraries · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
100
Open Page Rank 8+
0
1,882
Open Page Rank 7+
0
7,782
Open Page Rank 6+
0
15,359
Open Page Rank 5+
1
27,605
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Fireblade · Google Hosted Libraries · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
460
280,294
Japan
80
224,601
India
185
104,588
United Kingdom
245
98,930
Canada
183
71,082
France
116
68,026
Brazil
773
62,935
Germany
141
62,234
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Fireblade | Google Hosted Libraries |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.7 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
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.