Great News for jQuery lovers!!! According to a recent study W3Techs , jQuery now runs on every second website. The popular library JavaScript has come a long way since John Resig launched selectors JavaScript on his blog in 2005.
Only seven years after that initial idea, the jQuery library now runs on every second website. An incredible achievement. In the last year, every 4 minutes one of the top 1 million sites started to use jQuery. It was the fastest growing web technology in 2011, and there is no sign of a saturation yet.
There are, of course, other JavaScript libraries that in many ways compete with jQuery. Other libraries offer different concepts and functionality, but the 88.3% market share of jQuery seems to indicate that jQuery delivers what many webmasters need.
Many sites use more than one JavaScript library, see our survey on Multiple JavaScript Library Usage. One interesting fact is, that sites that use other popular libraries very often use jQuery as well. 49.5% of MooTools sites use jQuery and 49.2% of Prototype sites do.
Another interesting finding of our surveys is the fact that only 73.4% website don't use any CDN, only 26.6% are using CDN. Loading jQuery from CDN saves bandwidth and reduces load on your server. Read more. And out of 26.6% sites, 94.2% of the are using Google CDN. Read "Why to use Google hosted jQuery CDN"
Congratulations to John Resig and the jQuery community.
Feel free to contact me for any help related to jQuery, I will gladly help you.
Only seven years after that initial idea, the jQuery library now runs on every second website. An incredible achievement. In the last year, every 4 minutes one of the top 1 million sites started to use jQuery. It was the fastest growing web technology in 2011, and there is no sign of a saturation yet.
There are, of course, other JavaScript libraries that in many ways compete with jQuery. Other libraries offer different concepts and functionality, but the 88.3% market share of jQuery seems to indicate that jQuery delivers what many webmasters need.
Many sites use more than one JavaScript library, see our survey on Multiple JavaScript Library Usage. One interesting fact is, that sites that use other popular libraries very often use jQuery as well. 49.5% of MooTools sites use jQuery and 49.2% of Prototype sites do.
Another interesting finding of our surveys is the fact that only 73.4% website don't use any CDN, only 26.6% are using CDN. Loading jQuery from CDN saves bandwidth and reduces load on your server. Read more. And out of 26.6% sites, 94.2% of the are using Google CDN. Read "Why to use Google hosted jQuery CDN"
Congratulations to John Resig and the jQuery community.
Feel free to contact me for any help related to jQuery, I will gladly help you.
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