🆚 jQuery vs. Scriptaculous

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

JavaScript library
JavaScript library

About

jQuery is a fast, small, feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax.

It provides a cross-browser selector engine, formerly known as Sizzle, supports deferred and promise objects for asynchronous workflows, has built-in JSON parsing and utility functions, and allows extensibility through a large ecosystem of plugins.

Script.aculo.us is a set of JavaScript libraries to enhance the user interface of web sites.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

JavaScript Libraries › Rank #1
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #123
Animation › Rank #10

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The jQuery JavaScript library is 414 times more popular than Scriptaculous.
Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

jQuery is more popular than Scriptaculous in all countries.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
China
France
Italy
Netherlands
Spain
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

jQuery is more popular than Scriptaculous in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
Health
General News
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Rank
rosszlanyok.hu
#3,463
#5,271
#7,313
inkbunny.net
#7,688
#12,444
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