Highlight.js vs jQuery UI

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 12,222

585,514

India 8,562

254,733

Germany 6,957

246,243

France 5,522

210,785

Brazil 5,125

208,190

United Kingdom 6,281

201,723

Italy 5,146

195,443

Spain 4,636

180,678

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 UI sites