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+
245
1
Open Page Rank 8+
5,631
1
Open Page Rank 7+
31,992
1
Open Page Rank 6+
74,247
1
Open Page Rank 5+
151,036
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
1,868,996
29
Japan
820,202
24
Germany
760,440
26
India
750,494
29
United Kingdom
627,325
28
France
602,656
28
Italy
522,636
25
Brazil
518,250
25
Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.
Real user performance
| Metric | jQuery | Karma |
|---|---|---|
| LCP | 1.9 s | 1.3 s |
| INP | 75 ms | 125 ms |
| CLS | 0 | 0 |
| TTFB | 800 ms | 500 ms |
Median site's p75 values from the Chrome UX Report, Jun 2026. Lower is better; green meets Google's "good" threshold. This describes the sites that use each technology, not the technology's own overhead.