RequireJS vs Stimulus

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

1,521,355
websites
vs
785,007
websites

Top sites by authority

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

Open Page Rank 9+ 64 49
Open Page Rank 8+ 1,009 603
Open Page Rank 7+ 3,268 1,796
Open Page Rank 6+ 5,565 3,176
Open Page Rank 5+ 8,483 5,404

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

By country

RequireJS · Stimulus · share of sites in each country using one or the other

United States 126,047 136,156
United Kingdom 39,713 29,918
Germany 37,781 21,631
Canada 28,265 21,826
India 30,133 12,947
France 27,527 13,968
Australia 18,873 17,167
Brazil 25,881 7,101

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

Real user performance

Metric RequireJS Stimulus
LCP 1.6 s 1.7 s
INP 50 ms 50 ms
CLS 0 0
TTFB 600 ms 500 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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