Exactly 20 years ago today, jQuery was announced to the world!
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jQuery was announced at BarCamp NYC on January 14, 2006 by John Resig @jeresig, and is now maintained by the jQuery Team including Timmy @timmywil, Micha艂 @mgol and myself (on the infra side).
Usage still grows every year, both in traffic (via the jQuery CDN) and number of distinct sites overall (incl self-hosted and other CDNs).
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/jquery-2006
Follow @jquery or subscribe to https://blog.jquery.com/ in your feed reader to stay tuned. jQuery 4.0 is coming soon!
https://blog.jquery.com/2025/08/11/jquery-4-0-0-release-candidate-1/
jQuery CDN transfers 2 petabytes a month, averaging 21K req/s or 73TB daily. And still growing!
500,000 of the top 10M sites embed jQuery directly from the jQuery CDN. Making this alone the 4th largest JavaScript CDN.
Thanks to Fastly @fastlydevs for sponsoring the essential infrastructure that keeps so many sites working.
Did you know the servers and config behind it is all public and free open source software? Credit to @taavi!
https://github.com/jquery/infrastructure-puppet/blob/staging/doc/cdn.md
Frontend trends inside startups and new projects have shifted, of course, but...
Did you know relative usage of jQuery @jquery among top sites only decreased for the very first time in 2024?
BuiltWith 1M peaked at 78% in December 2023.
