HeadJS vs jQuery

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

Top sites by authority

HeadJS · jQuery · 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

HeadJS · jQuery · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 4,298

1,602,536

Japan 1,479

694,689

Germany 1,299

657,374

India 972

637,845

United Kingdom 1,049

540,397

France 889

506,084

Italy 766

464,759

Brazil 629

453,310

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 HeadJS sites · All jQuery sites