Barba.js vs jQuery
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Barba.js · jQuery · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
2
245
Open Page Rank 8+
14
5,631
Open Page Rank 7+
33
31,992
Open Page Rank 6+
60
74,247
Open Page Rank 5+
102
151,036
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Barba.js · jQuery · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
565
1,868,996
Japan
479
820,202
Germany
316
760,440
India
408
750,494
United Kingdom
328
627,325
France
282
602,656
Italy
372
522,636
Brazil
146
518,250
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Barba.js | jQuery |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2.2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.
Sites that switched
Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.
Barba.js to jQuery
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| prime-construtora.com | Feb 2026 |
| lidoasburypark.com | Nov 2025 |
| enumdigital.com | Sep 2025 |
jQuery to Barba.js
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| prime-construtora.com | Feb 2026 |
| cepezed.nl | Jan 2026 |
| lidoasburypark.com | Nov 2025 |