🆚 ESI vs. JSON
- 📈 JSON is much more popular than ESI.
- 🌍 JSON is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ ESI is particularly popular in France.
Type
About
Edge Side Includes (ESI) is a simple markup language used to define web page components for dynamic assembly and delivery of web applications at the edge of the Internet.
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.
It represents data as key-value pairs and ordered arrays, supports various data types, and is widely used in web APIs, configuration files, and data storage.
Headquarters
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
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Finland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 37th most popular in France in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 44th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Ghana in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Zimbabwe in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Senegal in the Standards 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.
See also
🗃️ 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.

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