InstantClick vs jQuery

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

Top sites by authority

InstantClick · 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

InstantClick · jQuery · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 1,517

1,602,536

Japan 124

694,689

Germany 250

657,374

India 316

637,845

United Kingdom 455

540,397

France 290

506,084

Italy 194

464,759

Brazil 133

453,310

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, 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.

Sites that switched

Domains that dropped one technology and adopted the other within about a year, data nobody else gives away free.

All InstantClick sites · All jQuery sites