🆚 jQuery vs. X for Websites

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 jQuery is much more popular than X for Websites.
🌍 jQuery is more popular in all countries.
⭐ X for Websites is particularly popular in Japan.

jQuery

X for Websites

Type

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.

X for Websites is a suite of tools bringing X content and functionality to your webpages and apps, enabling the X audience to share your content, and follow your X accounts.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Bastrop, Texas, United States

Website

jquery.com #76,134

developer.x.com

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The jQuery JavaScript library is 35 times more popular than X for Websites.

Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

jQuery is more popular than X for Websites in all countries.

United States

Japan

Germany

United Kingdom

France

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Russia

India

Awards

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.

⭐ 6th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Rwanda in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🔥 13rd most popular in Mongolia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
🔥 16th most popular in Uganda in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 25th most popular in Venezuela in the JavaScript Libraries category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

jQuery is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and blogs and wiki, while X for Websites is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, and sports sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Software/Hardware