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 12,222

873,360

Germany 6,957

320,699

India 8,562

307,283

Japan 4,829

283,792

United Kingdom 6,281

271,907

Italy 5,146

269,098

France 5,522

267,883

Brazil 5,125

256,253

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 Migrate sites