Font Awesome vs GoogleFontAPI
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Font Awesome · GoogleFontAPI · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
143
0
Open Page Rank 8+
3,087
0
Open Page Rank 7+
15,134
0
Open Page Rank 6+
32,065
0
Open Page Rank 5+
60,239
0
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 · GoogleFontAPI · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
718,507
0
India
371,684
0
United Kingdom
240,928
0
Japan
235,585
0
Germany
233,966
0
Brazil
231,166
2
France
220,119
0
Italy
200,492
0
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Font Awesome | GoogleFontAPI |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 25 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 ms | 700 ms |
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.