🆚 Google Code Archive vs. SourceForge
- 📈 SourceForge is twice as popular as Google Code Archive.
- 🌎 SourceForge is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌎 Google Code Archive is more popular in Brazil, Vietnam, and South Africa.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Google Code ArchiveType
Code hosting platform
Code hosting platform
About
Google Code was a code hosting service for open source projects. It was discontinued in 2016 and is now available as an archive.
SourceForge is a software platform with an open-source project repository, bug tracking, wiki, and 
Git and SVN integration.
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States
San Diego, California, United States
code.google.com/archive/Pricing
Free ✔️Open source projects only
Free ✔️Up to 20-30GB disk quota for open source projects
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The SourceForge code hosting platform is 2.4 times more popular than Google Code Archive.
Total websites
Market share
Code Hosting
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
SourceForge is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while Google Code Archive is more popular in Brazil, Vietnam, and South Africa.
United States
Germany
France
Poland
United Kingdom
Japan
Russia
Italy
Netherlands
Canada
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Code Hosting category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Code Hosting category.
- ⬆️ 52nd most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 58th most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Code Hosting category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Code Hosting category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Code Hosting category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Code Hosting category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the Code Hosting category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
SourceForge is more popular among sites focused on software and hardware, business, and blogs and wiki, while Google Code Archive is more commonly used on marketing and merchandising, online shopping, and Internet radio and TV sites.
Software/Hardware
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Technical/Business Forums
Technical Information
Internet Services
Shareware/Freeware
Games
Education/Reference
Personal Pages
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Gogs🗃️ 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.