🆚 Google Hosted Libraries vs. Gstatic

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Public CDN
Public CDN

About

Google Hosted Libraries is a public content delivery network operated by Google that serves popular open-source JavaScript libraries.

It hosts widely used libraries such as jQuery, Bootstrap, D3, and MooTools, delivers versioned files over HTTPS from Google infrastructure, and provides global edge delivery optimized for high availability.

Gstatic is a content delivery network service owned by Google that hosts static web assets to reduce bandwidth usage and improve load performance.

It delivers JavaScript libraries such as reCAPTCHA, Google Charts, and Firebase, web fonts from Google Fonts, and CSS stylesheets and images used by services like Google Maps, Gmail, and YouTube.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️
Free ✔️

Categories

Public CDN › Rank #3
Public CDN › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Gstatic public CDN is 2.3 times more popular than Google Hosted Libraries.
Total websites

Market share

Public CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Gstatic is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France, while Google Hosted Libraries is more popular in Japan, Wallis and Futuna, and Sao Tome and Principe.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Spain
Germany
Netherlands
Australia
India
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Gstatic is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Google Hosted Libraries is more commonly used on finance and banking, art, culture and heritage, and motor vehicles sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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