🆚 Babel vs. Picturefill
- 📈 Picturefill is twice as popular as Babel.
- 🌎 Picturefill is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 Babel is more popular in Russia, China, and Singapore.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Babel
PicturefillType
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.
A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more.
Headquarters
United States
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Picturefill JavaScript library is 2.2 times more popular than Babel.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Picturefill is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany, while Babel is more popular in Russia, China, and Singapore.
United States
Japan
Germany
United Kingdom
Russia
France
Brazil
Poland
Spain
Italy
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.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Switzerland in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Estonia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Austria in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Picturefill is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while Babel is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, recreation and hobbies, and restaurants sites.
Blogs/Wiki
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Travel
Real Estate
Entertainment
Sports
Health
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.