| Metric | Cloudflare | jQuery | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | 49 | 44 | Cloudflare |
| Accessibility | 88 | 85 | Cloudflare |
| Best Practices | 86 | 86 | Tie |
| SEO | 89 | 89 | Tie |
| Security | 68 | 65 | Cloudflare |
| TTFB | 298ms | 441ms | Cloudflare |
| Composite | 75 | 73 | Cloudflare |
Cloudflare outperforms jQuery in 5 of 7 categories, with a stronger composite score (75 vs 73). jQuery leads in no categories.
Choose Cloudflare when your primary concern is server response time and performance. Its audit data shows consistent strength in these areas across the sampled sites.
jQuery doesn't clearly lead Cloudflare in any category on the sampled sites — pick it based on developer experience, ecosystem, or existing team skills rather than the audit scores.
Scores are medians across 2145 audited Cloudflare sites and 1898 audited jQuery sites in the BeaverCheck database. Every audit runs the same 100+ checks — Lighthouse performance, security headers, accessibility, SEO, server response time — against a real URL. No vendor input, no sponsorship, no affiliate links. Read the full methodology →
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