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+
235
1
Open Page Rank 8+
5,514
1
Open Page Rank 7+
31,187
1
Open Page Rank 6+
71,954
1
Open Page Rank 5+
145,680
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
1,602,536
26
Japan
694,689
19
Germany
657,374
24
India
637,845
24
United Kingdom
540,397
25
France
506,084
23
Italy
464,759
21
Brazil
453,310
23
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 | 100 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 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.