jQuery vs prettyPhoto

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

Top sites by authority

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

United States 1,868,996

54,356

Japan 820,202

9,345

India 750,494

33,439

Germany 760,440

21,954

United Kingdom 627,325

19,466

France 602,656

20,605

Italy 522,636

30,952

Brazil 518,250

18,657

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 prettyPhoto sites