🆚 Fingerprint vs. JS Cookie
- 📈 JS Cookie is much more popular than Fingerprint.
- 🌍 JS Cookie is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
FingerprintType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Fingerprint is a commercial browser fingerprinting solution that queries browser attributes and computes a hashed visitor identifier from them.
JS Cookie is an open-source, lightweight 
JavaScript library for managing browser cookies.
It provides a simple API for setting, retrieving, and removing cookies, supports custom encoding and decoding, and is less than 800 bytes when gzipped.
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Germany
GitHubPricing
Free version ✔️ Before the version 4.0, open source
Pro $99+/month
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The JS Cookie JavaScript library is 366 times more popular than Fingerprint.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JS Cookie is more popular than Fingerprint in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
India
Brazil
Awards
- 🔥 12nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Identity Resolution category.
- ⬆️ 209th most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Hungary in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
JS Cookie is more popular than Fingerprint in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Internet Services
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Web Font Loader🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.