Handlebars vs RequireJS

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

Top sites by authority

Handlebars · RequireJS · 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

Handlebars · RequireJS · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 68,766

158,248

United Kingdom 22,888

46,226

Germany 18,753

42,885

India 21,275

35,970

Canada 20,396

34,211

France 16,365

31,966

Brazil 10,746

29,342

Australia 14,008

22,193

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, 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.

All Handlebars sites · All RequireJS sites