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
103
Open Page Rank 8+
0
1,916
Open Page Rank 7+
0
7,973
Open Page Rank 6+
0
15,713
Open Page Rank 5+
1
28,282
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
477
287,105
Japan
74
228,419
India
186
107,539
United Kingdom
237
98,380
Canada
176
72,013
France
116
68,288
Brazil
783
64,908
Germany
139
64,646
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 | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 700 ms |
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.