🆚 Google URL Shortener vs. Picturefill
- 📈 Google URL Shortener is five times more popular than Picturefill.
- 🌎 Google URL Shortener is more popular in the United States, Japan, and Germany.
- 🌍 Picturefill is more popular in Russia, China, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google URL Shortener
PicturefillType
Legacy technology
JavaScript library
About
Google URL Shortener is a deprecated link service from Google.
A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Google URL Shortener legacy technology is 5 times more popular than Picturefill.
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 Germany, while Picturefill is more popular in Russia, China, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
United States
Japan
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
Australia
Brazil
Italy
India
Canada
Awards
- 🥇 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.
- ⭐ 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 Austria 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 Picturefill 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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Babel🗃️ 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.