🆚 D3.js vs. Highcharts
- 📈 Highcharts is noticeably more popular than D3.js.
- 🌎 Highcharts is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌎 D3.js is more popular in Korea, Brazil, and Spain.
D3.js
HighchartsType
About
D3.js is an open-source, low-level 
JavaScript toolbox for data visualization.
It supports loading data from CSV, 
JSON, and GeoJSON formats, provides scale functions for mapping data values to visual properties, includes layouts such as force-directed graphs, treemaps, and packed circles, and offers transitions, animations, and interaction tools like dragging, zooming, and panning.
Highcharts is a commercial JavaScript charting framework based on SVG, with optional 
WebGL for high-volume rendering.
It supports line, area, bar, pie, scatter, heatmap, polar, gauge, range, and 3D charts, provides responsive touch support, exports to PNG, JPG, PDF, and SVG, accepts data from JSON or live sources, and includes wrappers for 
React, 
Vue, and 
Angular.
Headquarters
Pricing
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Korea in the Charting category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Charting category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Charting category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Charting category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Spain in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the Charting category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Charting category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.