🆚 Babel vs. ES6 Shim
- 📈 Babel is much more popular than ES6 Shim.
- 🌎 Babel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland.
- 🌍 ES6 Shim is more popular in Estonia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Babel
ES6 ShimType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Babel is a 
JavaScript compiler mainly used to convert ECMAScript 2015+ (ES6) code into an older JavaScript (ES5) version to maximize browser compatibility.
Provides compatibility shims so that legacy JavaScript engines behave as closely as possible to ECMAScript 6 (Harmony).
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Babel JavaScript library is 16 times more popular than ES6 Shim.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Babel is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Poland, while ES6 Shim is more popular in Estonia.
United States
United Kingdom
Poland
Russia
France
Germany
Canada
Japan
Australia
Italy
Awards
- ⬆️ 64th most popular in Singapore in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 71st most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 83rd most popular in Sweden in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 86th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 92nd most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 52nd most popular in France in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 59th most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 62nd most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 223rd most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 235th most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Babel is more popular than ES6 Shim in all market segments.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Real Estate
Online Shopping
Recreation/Hobbies
Entertainment
Sports
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Picturefill🗃️ About This Data
- 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.