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 632,291

1,316,642

India 324,306

553,211

Brazil 207,581

440,793

Japan 201,986

425,221

United Kingdom 207,574

406,311

France 182,046

369,694

Germany 205,247

296,402

Italy 170,820

324,473

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 Font Awesome sites · All Google Font API sites