Font Awesome vs Google Font API

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

Top sites by authority

Font Awesome · Google Font API · 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

Font Awesome · Google Font API · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 617,158

1,258,056

India 317,421

547,297

Brazil 200,753

434,650

Japan 198,849

421,467

United Kingdom 207,608

401,120

France 182,722

371,258

Italy 176,668

336,191

Germany 199,528

285,631

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 Font Awesome sites · All Google Font API sites