🆚 Alexa vs. Skype
- 📈 Skype is three times more popular than Alexa.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia.
- 🌎 Alexa is more popular in the United States, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Alexa
SkypeType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
Alexa was a web traffic analysis service from Amazon that was discontinued in 2022.
Skype was a communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of 
Microsoft Teams.
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Phone calls
World (unlimited mins)$16.79/month
USA (unlimited mins)$3.59/month
UK (30 mins)$1.79/month
Germany (100 mins)$3.59/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Skype legacy technology is 2.7 times more popular than Alexa.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Skype is more popular in Thailand, China, and Russia, while Alexa is more popular in the United States, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
Thailand
China
United States
Russia
India
Vietnam
Turkey
Italy
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Turkey in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Morocco in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Indonesia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Iran in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Bangladesh in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Skype is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and travel, while Alexa is more commonly used on general news, blogs and wiki, and marketing and merchandising sites.
Business
Internet Services
General News
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.