Google Hosted Libraries vs jQuery CDN

Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.

Top sites by authority

Google Hosted Libraries · jQuery CDN · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

Google Hosted Libraries · jQuery CDN · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 280,294

145,674

Japan 224,601

82,297

India 104,588

78,303

United Kingdom 98,930

57,593

Canada 71,082

41,836

France 68,026

42,863

Brazil 62,935

43,532

Germany 62,234

39,232

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Sep 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.

All Google Hosted Libraries sites · All jQuery CDN sites