🆚 Babel vs. Fastly Polyfill
- 📈 Babel is slightly more popular than Fastly Polyfill.
- 🌍 Babel is more popular in Russia, Poland, and France.
- 🌎 Fastly Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ 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.
Headquarters
United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #111
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #118
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Babel JavaScript library is 1.2 times more popular than Fastly Polyfill.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Babel is more popular in Russia, Poland, and France, while Fastly Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
Canada
Germany
Japan
Australia
Poland
France
Brazil
Awards
- ⬆️ 62nd most popular in Singapore in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 65th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 69th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 80th most popular in Sweden in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 83rd most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 87th most popular in Canada in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 91st most popular in Sweden in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 94th most popular in Australia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 96th most popular in Denmark in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 98th most popular in Ireland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Babel is more popular among sites focused on blogs and wiki, marketing and merchandising, and business, while Fastly Polyfill is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and general news sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Education/Reference
Recreation/Hobbies
Fashion/Beauty
Real Estate
Entertainment
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.