jQuery vs Lightbox

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

Top sites by authority

jQuery · Lightbox · 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

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

United States 1,602,536

164,365

Japan 694,689

58,602

Germany 657,374

85,605

India 637,845

74,692

United Kingdom 540,397

55,913

France 506,084

53,422

Italy 464,759

55,369

Brazil 453,310

46,482

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 jQuery sites · All Lightbox sites