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+
103
0
Open Page Rank 8+
1,916
1
Open Page Rank 7+
7,973
4
Open Page Rank 6+
15,713
8
Open Page Rank 5+
28,282
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
287,105
302
Japan
228,419
44
India
107,539
38
United Kingdom
98,380
151
Canada
72,013
43
France
68,288
29
Brazil
64,908
11
Germany
64,646
36
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, 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.