Is jQuery still relevant?

Remy Sharp:

I've been playing with BigQuery and querying HTTP Archive's dataset ... I've queried the HTTP Archive and included the top 20 [JavaScript libraries] ... jQuery accounts for a massive 83% of libraries found on the web sites.

This corroborates other research, like W3Techs:

jQuery is used by 96.2% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 73.1% of all websites.

And BuiltWith that shows it at 88.5% of the top 1,000,000 sites they …

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