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 1,645,337

167,860

Japan 705,260

58,879

Germany 672,972

86,544

India 652,564

75,877

United Kingdom 543,018

55,917

France 501,574

52,394

Brazil 468,680

47,834

Italy 448,261

53,658

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, 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.

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