jquery
JavaScript library for DOM operations
npm says
18,039,798
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 18M
per week
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
noise under 1% of npm's count, so nearly all of it counts. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Most used major version: 3, not the latest one, with 60% of last week's downloads above the crawler floor. Most used single version: 3.7.1.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 6, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use jquery?
npm counted 18,039,798 downloads of jquery in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 18M look like real installs. At this scale most of them come from CI, builds and other packages that depend on jquery, so the number of people behind them is far smaller.
Is jquery still maintained?
Less clear: the last release is more than six months old. The latest version, 4.0.0, came out on Jan 18, 2026. The last 12 months saw 1 stable release, plus 1 pre-release. It was first published on Mar 19, 2011. npm lists 5 maintainers.
Is jquery still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are about flat over 3 months and about flat over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 269 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 157% over 11 months, so this one is behind that. Last week, 60% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 3, not the latest one; the most used single version was 3.7.1, with 45%. Weekdays get 1.3× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 2,368 downloads a week, roughly 37 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.