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+
105
0
Open Page Rank 8+
1,970
1
Open Page Rank 7+
8,211
4
Open Page Rank 6+
16,272
8
Open Page Rank 5+
29,295
11
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
327,264
327
Japan
267,213
49
India
124,044
42
United Kingdom
114,905
182
Canada
83,462
46
France
83,126
35
Germany
74,359
46
Brazil
72,218
14
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Google Hosted Libraries | ImageEngine |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.7 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 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.