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 12,219

849,474

Germany 6,895

314,354

India 8,432

299,510

Italy 5,447

282,524

Japan 4,739

282,542

France 5,703

271,447

United Kingdom 6,405

269,921

Spain 4,945

252,481

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 Migrate sites