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 1,645,337

46,963

Japan 705,260

7,946

Germany 672,972

19,444

India 652,564

28,689

United Kingdom 543,018

16,756

France 501,574

16,979

Brazil 468,680

16,934

Italy 448,261

26,384

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 prettyPhoto sites