esm.sh vs Google Hosted Libraries

Google Hosted Libraries is used by more websites in our catalog: 147 use esm.sh and 53,477 use Google Hosted Libraries.

Google Hosted Libraries sites have the higher median Ahrefs Domain Rating (esm.sh: 28, Google Hosted Libraries: 29).

Between 2026-06 and 2026-07, esm.sh went from 0.02% to 0.02% of all tracked sites, while Google Hosted Libraries went from 6.9% to 6.1%. esm.sh is gaining ground faster in our index.

12 websites in our catalog use both esm.sh and Google Hosted Libraries.

Adoption is counted from Site Stats Database's own crawl; Domain Rating comes from Ahrefs and traffic from DataForSEO. Figures reflect the sites we track and refresh at least monthly.