ClientJS vs jQuery
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
ClientJS · jQuery · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
6
240
Open Page Rank 8+
56
5,562
Open Page Rank 7+
175
31,600
Open Page Rank 6+
257
73,156
Open Page Rank 5+
360
148,615
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
ClientJS · jQuery · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
980
1,645,337
Japan
381
705,260
Germany
713
672,972
India
652
652,564
United Kingdom
642
543,018
France
575
501,574
Brazil
668
468,680
Italy
553
448,261
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | ClientJS | jQuery |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.9 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 75 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 700 ms | 800 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Aug 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.
ClientJS to jQuery
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| whalewatching.com | Jul 2026 |
| northernleisureproducts.com | May 2026 |
| xometry.sg | May 2026 |
| safer.com | Apr 2026 |
jQuery to ClientJS
| Domain | When |
|---|---|
| shapelabs.one | Apr 2026 |
| safer.com | Apr 2026 |
| snodis.de | Feb 2026 |
| gplt.in | Oct 2025 |