Hydrogen vs RequireJS
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
Hydrogen · RequireJS · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
0
65
Open Page Rank 8+
7
994
Open Page Rank 7+
33
3,258
Open Page Rank 6+
69
5,572
Open Page Rank 5+
145
8,483
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
Hydrogen · RequireJS · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
979
126,047
United Kingdom
520
39,713
Germany
381
37,781
India
444
30,133
Canada
478
28,265
France
326
27,527
Brazil
164
25,881
Spain
263
19,648
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | Hydrogen | RequireJS |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 2 s | 1.6 s |
| INP | 100 ms | 50 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 1000 ms | 600 ms |
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.