🆚 Babel vs. Picturefill
- 📈 Picturefill is three times more popular than Babel.
- 🌎 Picturefill is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 Babel is more popular in China, Singapore, and Korea.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ 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.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Picturefill JavaScript library is 2.7 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, Germany, and Japan, while Babel is more popular in China, Singapore, and Korea.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Brazil
Russia
Poland
Spain
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.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Estonia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Switzerland in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Portugal in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Sweden 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 education and reference, while Babel is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, real estate, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Travel
Real Estate
Entertainment
Sports
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Fastly Polyfill🗃️ 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.