🆚 Google Hosted Libraries vs. Unpkg

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Google Hosted Libraries is three times more popular than Unpkg.
🌎 Google Hosted Libraries is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Unpkg is more popular in Iran, Mongolia, and the Faroe Islands.

Google Hosted Libraries

Unpkg

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.

Unpkg is a global content delivery network that serves files directly from public Npm packages.

It allows access to specific package versions or version ranges through predictable URLs, supports directory browsing and JSON metadata responses, automatically caches assets on Cloudflare's edge network, and updates cached content after new Npm releases.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Carlsbad, California, United States

Website

developers.google.com

unpkg.com #103,042

Pricing

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Hosted Libraries public CDN is 3 times more popular than Unpkg.

Total websites

Market share

Public CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Hosted Libraries is more popular in the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom, while Unpkg is more popular in Iran, Mongolia, and the Faroe Islands.

United States

Japan

United Kingdom

Germany

France

India

Netherlands

Australia

Italy

Canada

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.

🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the Public CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Mongolia in the Public CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Jordan in the Public CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Bolivia in the Public CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in Laos in the Public CDN category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Hosted Libraries is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Unpkg is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, sports, and restaurants sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Health

Software/Hardware