Font Awesome vs sIFR
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Font Awesome · sIFR · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
143
1
Open Page Rank 8+
3,063
4
Open Page Rank 7+
14,885
8
Open Page Rank 6+
31,462
10
Open Page Rank 5+
58,966
12
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 · sIFR · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
632,291
120
India
324,306
57
United Kingdom
207,574
68
Brazil
207,581
52
Germany
205,247
62
Japan
201,986
21
France
182,046
38
Italy
170,820
48
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Font Awesome | sIFR |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.5 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 900 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.