I visited the homepages of the 14.8 million sites in Google’s Chrome UX Report in October.

I thought jQuery would be dead, but it’s still on 53.7% of sites, and it seems to be tied quite tightly to the platform. Webflow puts it on 97.6% of its sites, WordPress on 84.9%. For contrast, React is on 10.6% of sites.

jQuery helped me get into web development, and I guess it still gets the job done even if redundant with browser standards these days…

  • ultimaluz@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    from the agency side, a lot of that 53% is just sites nobody gets paid to touch. clients pay for the new feature or the redesign, not for swapping $() for querySelector on a site that works, and on wordpress some plugin loads it again anyway like OP said. for something new I wouldn’t pick it, but I don’t expect the number to drop fast, it goes down when sites get rebuilt, not when devs stop liking it