🆚 GraphQL vs. Markdown
- 📈 GraphQL is four times more popular than Markdown.
- 🌎 GraphQL is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 Markdown is more popular in Japan, China, and Saint Helena.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
GraphQL
MarkdownType
Standard
Standard
About
GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.
Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents using simple, human-readable syntax.
It defines elements such as headings, lists, links, images, code blocks, and emphasis through a simple set of symbols like "#*`[]()", and supports extensions for tables, footnotes, and task lists.
Headquarters
Menlo Park, California, United States
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
GraphQL is 4 times more popular than Markdown.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
GraphQL is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Markdown is more popular in Japan, China, and Saint Helena.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Netherlands
France
Australia
Norway
Sweden
Poland
Switzerland
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Iceland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Sweden in the Standards category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Poland in the Standards category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Norway in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Switzerland in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Germany in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
GraphQL is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Markdown is more commonly used on technical information and technical, business forums sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Fashion/Beauty
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Meta company profile🗃️ 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.