jQuery vs Karma
Head-to-head usage across the sites we track.
Top sites by authority
jQuery · Karma · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers
Open Page Rank 9+
240
1
Open Page Rank 8+
5,562
1
Open Page Rank 7+
31,600
1
Open Page Rank 6+
73,156
1
Open Page Rank 5+
148,615
3
Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.
By country
jQuery · Karma · share of sites in each country using one or the other
United States
1,645,337
26
Japan
705,260
20
Germany
672,972
24
India
652,564
24
United Kingdom
543,018
25
France
501,574
23
Brazil
468,680
21
Italy
448,261
21
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | jQuery | Karma |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.4 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 600 ms |
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.