Google Hosted Libraries vs ImageEngine
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Google Hosted Libraries · ImageEngine · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
98
0
Open Page Rank 8+
1,847
0
Open Page Rank 7+
7,667
2
Open Page Rank 6+
15,099
6
Open Page Rank 5+
27,116
9
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Google Hosted Libraries · ImageEngine · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
280,294
288
Japan
224,601
40
India
104,588
34
United Kingdom
98,930
143
Canada
71,082
42
France
68,026
25
Brazil
62,935
13
Germany
62,234
33
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Google Hosted Libraries | ImageEngine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.8 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 700 ms |
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.