Google Hosted Libraries vs Statically

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Google Hosted Libraries · Statically · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

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 · Statically · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 280,294

187

Japan 224,601

69

India 104,588

151

United Kingdom 98,930

94

Canada 71,082

65

France 68,026

94

Brazil 62,935

93

Germany 62,234

96

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All Google Hosted Libraries sites · All Statically sites