🆚 Babel vs. Fastly Polyfill
- 📈 Fastly Polyfill is noticeably more popular than Babel.
- 🌎 Fastly Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Babel is more popular in Poland, Russia, and Sweden.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Babel
Fastly PolyfillType
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.
Fastly Polyfill is a service that reads the User-Agent header of each request and returns polyfills appropriate for the requesting browser.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #119
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #100
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Fastly Polyfill JavaScript library is 1.5 times more popular than Babel.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Fastly Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Babel is more popular in Poland, Russia, and Sweden.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Australia
Canada
France
Brazil
Italy
Poland
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.
- ⬆️ 71st most popular in New Zealand in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 76th most popular in Canada in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 77th most popular in Brazil in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 78th most popular in Norway in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 79th most popular in Israel in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Fastly Polyfill is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Babel is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, education and reference, and real estate sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Real Estate
Recreation/Hobbies
Fashion/Beauty
General News
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Core-js🗃️ 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.