Highlight.js vs jQuery

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

Top sites by authority

Highlight.js · 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

Highlight.js · jQuery · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 12,222

1,645,337

Japan 4,829

705,260

Germany 6,957

672,972

India 8,562

652,564

United Kingdom 6,281

543,018

France 5,522

501,574

Brazil 5,125

468,680

Italy 5,146

448,261

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, 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.

All Highlight.js sites · All jQuery sites