jQuery vs Modernizr

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 1,868,996

419,117

Germany 760,440

127,707

Japan 820,202

67,209

India 750,494

120,157

United Kingdom 627,325

124,829

France 602,656

94,931

Italy 522,636

99,681

Brazil 518,250

68,207

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, 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.

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 Modernizr sites