jQuery vs Select2

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

30,569,543
websites
vs
1,577,790
websites

Top sites by authority

jQuery · Select2 · how many of each technology's sites sit in the web's highest authority tiers

Open Page Rank 9+ 235 80
Open Page Rank 8+ 5,514 1,510
Open Page Rank 7+ 31,187 5,950
Open Page Rank 6+ 71,954 11,128
Open Page Rank 5+ 145,680 18,849

Open Page Rank scores 0 to 10 from the open web link graph; 9+ covers only a few hundred domains worldwide.

By country

jQuery · Select2 · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 1,602,536 113,819
Japan 694,689 18,773
Germany 657,374 49,821
India 637,845 59,767
United Kingdom 540,397 49,689
France 506,084 48,287
Italy 464,759 45,745
Brazil 453,310 41,990

Audience countries from the Chrome UX Report, top markets of either technology.

Real user performance

Metric jQuery Select2
LCP 1.9 s 2.2 s
INP 75 ms 75 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 800 ms 1100 ms

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.

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