🆚 Closure Library vs. Google URL Shortener
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is much more popular than Closure Library.
- 🌎 Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain.
- 🌍 Closure Library is more popular in Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, and Togo.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Closure LibraryType
JavaScript library
Legacy technology
About
Google Closure Library is a low-level 
JavaScript library designed for building complex and scalable web applications.
Google URL Shortener is a deprecated link service from Google.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States
GitHubPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 18 times more popular than Closure Library.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Spain, while Closure Library is more popular in Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, and Togo.
United States
Japan
Spain
Germany
Australia
India
Brazil
Italy
United Kingdom
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Nigeria in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Indonesia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the Philippines in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Bangladesh in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Pakistan in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Taiwan in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Paraguay in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the U.S. Virgin Islands in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Puerto Rico in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Google URL Shortener is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Closure Library is more commonly used on general news sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Health
Travel
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
Sports
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google Funding Choices🗃️ 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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.