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 7,062

1,645,337

Japan 2,265

705,260

Germany 3,092

672,972

India 3,692

652,564

United Kingdom 3,459

543,018

France 2,707

501,574

Brazil 2,740

468,680

Italy 2,271

448,261

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 Howler.js sites · All jQuery sites