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Font Awesome

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Font Awesome is a comprehensive and versatile font and icon toolkit based on CSS and Less. It has become one of the most popular icon sets for web development, offering a vast library of scalable vector icons that can be customized, styled, and manipulated with CSS. Font Awesome provides icons as font files or SVG, allowing for easy integration into web projects and ensuring crisp rendering at any size. The toolkit includes thousands of icons covering a wide range of categories, from user interface elements to brand logos. Font Awesome's CSS classes make it simple to add icons to any HTML element, adjust their size, animate them, or stack multiple icons. With regular updates and community contributions, Font Awesome continues to expand its icon set, making it a valuable resource for developers and designers looking to enhance their web interfaces with expressive, high-quality icons.

Font Awesome belongs toFont scriptscategory.

236websites

use it — 9.2% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#2of 11

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 20)

74public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

11.22% of all websites we track run Font Awesome

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,560 websites · refreshed weekly

How Font Awesome sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

52PerformanceLowaverage site: 5088AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8993Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

Font Awesome sites
4.6 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Font Awesome sites load in 3.9–7.4 s. Home page weight: 3.7 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 71 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services31%
  • Cloudflare19%
  • Fastly4%
  • Google Cloud4%
  • Other42%
United States 61%Canada 15%Australia 4%

Who uses it?

Educational Resources sites use Font Awesome 1.9× more than average

Technology and Software55%
Business Services1.5× avg18%
Educational Resources1.9× avg10%
Software as a Service (SaaS)5%

Share of 74 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Font Awesome sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Font Awesome sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

OWL Carousel6×cdnjs4×Twitter Emoji (Twemoji)4×Slick4×Elementor3×Bootstrap3×jQuery UI3×Yoast SEO3×Swiper2×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Font Awesome on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 236 Font Awesome sites that run the whole stack.

10 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Font Awesome + Cloudflare + cdnjs + Bootstrap + jsDelivr

9.7%23 of 236 sites
#2

Font Awesome + Cloudflare + cdnjs + WordPress + Yoast SEO

8.5%20 of 236 sites
#3

Font Awesome + Cloudflare + Bootstrap + WordPress + Contact Form 7

3.8%9 of 236 sites
#4

Font Awesome + WordPress + Elementor + RankMath SEO

4.2%10 of 236 sites
#5

Font Awesome + cdnjs + Bootstrap + Yoast SEO + Contact Form 7

3%7 of 236 sites
#6

Font Awesome + WordPress + Yoast SEO + Contact Form 7 + Site Kit

2.1%5 of 236 sites
#7

Font Awesome + Bootstrap + Microsoft ASP.NET

3.4%8 of 236 sites
#8

Font Awesome + Cloudflare + Unpkg + HubSpot CMS Hub

2.1%5 of 236 sites
#9

Font Awesome + jsDelivr + YouTube

2.1%5 of 236 sites
#10

Font Awesome + YouTube + Animate.css

2.1%5 of 236 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 236 Font Awesome sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Analytics72%Facebook Pixel25%Linkedin Insight Tag19%Google Tag Manager68%Yoast SEO24%HubSpot17%Elementor15%DoubleClick Floodlight14%OneTrust14%Cart Functionality12%
AnalyticsTag managerSearch visibilityMarketingPage builderAdvertisingCookie consentOnline store

Similar tools in its category

Font scripts: 20 tools known, 11 seen in our scans

Lucide20 sitesAlternativeBunny Fonts6 sitesAlternativeMyFonts2 sitesAlternativeIonicons1 sitesAlternativeHoefler&Co1 sitesAlternativeGlyphicons0 sitesAlternativeCustom Fonts0 sitesAlternativeCufon0 sitesAlternativeGoogle Font API619 sitesUsed togetherTwitter Emoji (Twemoji)106 sitesUsed togetherTypekit (Adobe Fonts)80 sitesUsed togetherAdobe Fonts29 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Font Awesome with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Complements another tool 46Needs another tool 10Built on a platform 6Integrates with another 6

Questions about Font Awesome

How many websites use Font Awesome?
We found Font Awesome on 236 of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (9.2%). 74 of them have a public status page.
What is Font Awesome often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Font Awesome is often found alongside Google Analytics (72% of its sites), Cloudflare (57.6% of its sites), PHP (51.7% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Font Awesome?
Other font scripts tools we recognize include Google Font API, Twitter Emoji (Twemoji), Typekit (Adobe Fonts), Adobe Fonts.

Is your website built with Font Awesome?

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