Content delivery networks · Named, not rankedGoogle Hosted Libraries
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Google Hosted Libraries has 7.
Why models recommend it
No positive label carried a quote.
What gives them pause
“loading common scripts & styles from a public CDN like cdnjs or Google's Hosted Libraries was a 'best practice'... Nowadays, it's become a recipe for security, privacy & stability problems”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Avoid or be cautious with public/shared CDNs (e.g., ... Google Hosted Libraries, cdnjs, jsDelivr, or UNPKG)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Public CDNs in general (cdnjs, jsDelivr, Google Hosted Libraries, etc.) ... Avoid public CDNs where possible”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Public/Open CDNs to Be Cautious About ... avoid relying on external public CDNs for library loading”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Google Hosted Libraries, over the 9 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 4 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 3 | 0 | View → | |
| 2 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 9 of the 9 answers that named Google Hosted Libraries and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-four of the forty-four domain citations in answers naming Google Hosted Libraries came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |