🆚 Google Hosted Libraries vs. Gstatic

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Gstatic is twice as popular as Google Hosted Libraries.
🌎 Gstatic is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
🌍 Google Hosted Libraries is more popular in Japan, Wallis and Futuna, and Sao Tome and Principe.

Google Hosted Libraries

Gstatic

Type

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

Website

developers.google.com

google.com #1

Pricing

Free ✔️

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

🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Public CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Public CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Croatia in the Public CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Iceland in the Public CDN category.
🥈 Second most popular in Andorra in the Public CDN category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Public CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Public CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Public CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Public CDN category.
🥇 Most popular in the Netherlands in the Public CDN category.

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