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 12,219

1,602,536

Japan 4,739

694,689

Germany 6,895

657,374

India 8,432

637,845

United Kingdom 6,405

540,397

France 5,703

506,084

Italy 5,447

464,759

Brazil 5,074

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 Highlight.js sites · All jQuery sites