10 Interesting jQuery Facts and Stats
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Some interesting stats and ramblings about jQuery – the free, open source software! Spread the word!!!
- We know of 19,909,315 websites that are using JQuery!
- 216,123 websites within the top million most visited sites use jQuery!
- jQuery 19,909,315 websites vs MooTools 2,083,324 websites.
- jQuery 19,909,315 websites vs Prototype 1,216,637 websites.
- jQuery 19,909,315 websites vs script.aculo.us 1,008,167 websites.
- jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
- jQuery was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig.
- jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today. – wikipedia
- There is even a a jQuery-based Commodore 64 emulator!
- There is at least 4,830 official jquery plugins on the jquery plugin website!