Highlight.js vs jQuery Migrate

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 13,727

988,550

Germany 8,033

361,975

India 9,662

354,719

Japan 5,571

329,383

France 6,719

322,388

Italy 5,999

315,256

United Kingdom 7,223

313,223

Brazil 5,649

282,509

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 Highlight.js sites · All jQuery Migrate sites