According to an October survey of nearly 1,000,000 websites by W3Techs, JQuery is by far the most popular JavaScript library. “61.0% of the websites use none of the javascript libraries that we monitor,” a post on the W3Techs site says. “JQuery is used by 29.2% of all the websites, that is a javascript library market share of 74.7%.”
It looks like W3Techs’ methodology is more sound than the TIOBE Index we posted recently. But regardless of the popularity, what is your favorite library? For simplicity’s sake we’re asking for your favorite, not necessarily the “best” or even the one you use the most.
Here are the results of the W3Techs survey: