Howler.js vs jQuery

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

Top sites by authority

Howler.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

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

United States 7,626

1,868,996

Japan 2,573

820,202

Germany 3,521

760,440

India 4,081

750,494

United Kingdom 3,880

627,325

France 3,279

602,656

Italy 2,649

522,636

Brazil 3,037

518,250

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 Howler.js sites · All jQuery sites