⚡ JavaScript Libraries in Australia

JavaScript libraries are collections of prewritten code that provide reusable functions and components for building interactive features and handling common client-side tasks in web applications.

Australia is an Oceanian country with a population of over 27 million people.

According to our statistics, JavaScript libraries are used on 77.6% of websites from Australia.

Statistics based on 74K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top JavaScript libraries in Australia in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is jQuery, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 90.7% share.
It is followed by Swiper with 22% and Polyfill with 19.5%.

jQuery 90.7%
Swiper 22%
Polyfill 19.5%
Facebook SDK 19.5%
ImagesLoaded 15.1%
🍪 JS Cookie 12.6%
Lottie 11.7%
Waypoints 11.5%
Slick 11.1%
Regenerator 11.1%
jQuery BlockUI 10.5%
Modernizr 10%
Owl Carousel 9.9%
React 8.7%
Underscore.js 8.2%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top libraries that are more popular in Australia than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

3. Polyfill ^(-1)
6. 🍪 JS Cookie ^(-2)
7. Lottie ^(-3)
8. Waypoints ^(-3)
10. Regenerator ^(-13)
11. jQuery BlockUI ^(-5)
15. Underscore.js ^(-2)
17. FlexSlider ^(-2)
20. SmartMenus ^(-4)
24. jQuery Mousewheel ^(-8)

✨ Best JavaScript Libraries

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 285 JavaScript libraries used on sites from Australia, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	jQuery San Francisco, California, United States A fast, small, feature-rich JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, event handling, CSS animations, and Ajax. FreeOpen source	90.7%
2	Swiper Weston, Florida, United States A modern touch slider library for building responsive sliders and carousels with hardware-accelerated transitions. FreeOpen source	22%
3	Polyfill An open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them. FreeOpen source	19.5%
4	Facebook SDK Menlo Park, California, United States A library that provides client-side tools for Social Plugins, Login, and Graph API calls. Free	19.5%
5	ImagesLoaded Alexandria, Virginia, United States A JavaScript library that detects when images have been loaded. FreeOpen source	15.1%
6	🍪 JS Cookie Germany A simple, lightweight JavaScript library for handling browser cookies. FreeOpen source	12.6%
7	Lottie San Francisco, California, United States An animation framework created by Airbnb that lets developers export Adobe After Effects animations as JSON and render them natively on mobile, desktop, and the web. FreeOpen source	11.7%
8	Waypoints West Linn, Oregon, United States A library that makes it easy to execute a function whenever you scroll to an element. FreeOpen source	11.5%
9	Slick An open-source, fully responsive and accessible carousel library. FreeOpen source	11.1%
10	Regenerator Menlo Park, California, United States A JavaScript library from Facebook that allows the use of ES6 generators in older browsers. FreeOpen source	11.1%
11	jQuery BlockUI Allows you to block user interaction on the page or part of the page. FreeOpen source	10.5%
12	Modernizr A JavaScript library that detects the availability of HTML, CSS and JavaScript features in the user's browser. FreeOpen source	10%
13	Owl Carousel Germany A touch enabled jQuery plugin that lets you create a beautiful, responsive carousel slider. FreeOpen source	9.9%
14	React Menlo Park, California, United States A popular open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces, created by Facebook. FreeOpen source	8.7%
15	Underscore.js Boston, Massachusetts, United States A utility library for JavaScript that provides support for functional programming helpers (each, map, reduce, filter) without extending any built-in JavaScript objects. FreeOpen source	8.2%
16	MediaElement.js Dallas, Texas, United States A free audio and video player with support for media files (MP4, WebM, MP3), streaming content (HLS, Dash), and embeddable players (YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, SoundCloud, etc). FreeOpen source	7.6%
17	FlexSlider San Francisco, California, United States A responsive jQuery slider created by the WooCommerce team and included with WooCommerce. FreeOpen source	7.6%
18	Fancyapps A commercial library of JavaScript UI components that includes lightbox, carousel, and pan/zoom components. €29+	7.5%
19	Magnific Popup A responsive lightbox and dialog plugin for jQuery and Zepto. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	7.5%
20	SmartMenus A jQuery plugin for creating mobile-first, responsive, and accessible list-based website menus that work on all devices. FreeOpen source	7.4%
21	Isotope Alexandria, Virginia, United States A commercial JavaScript library for creating filterable and sortable grid layouts. FreeOpen source$25+	7.1%
22	jQuery Easing Wilberfoss, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom A jQuery plugin that adds 10+ advanced easing animations. FreeOpen source	6.9%
23	Lightbox San Francisco, California, United States The original lightbox library used to overlay images on top of the current page. FreeOpen source	5.2%
24	jQuery Mousewheel A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support. FreeOpen sourceLegacy	4.9%
25	Select2 A jQuery based replacement for select boxes. FreeOpen source	4.5%

👉 See Also

🌎 JavaScript Libraries in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 74,886 websites from Australia.
We currently track the presence of 310 JavaScript libraries across the web.
Of these, 285 were detected on websites from Australia.
Statistics were last calculated on April 17, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.