🆚 Highlight.js vs. Polymer

📈 Polymer is three times more popular than Highlight.js.
🌎 Polymer is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Highlight.js is more popular in Russia, China, and Ukraine.

Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Highlight.js

Polymer

Type

JavaScript library

Website component

About

Highlight.js is an open-source JavaScript syntax highlighter with automatic language detection and zero dependencies for browser and server-side environments.

It supports more than 190 programming and markup languages and over 500 themes, provides selective language builds for smaller bundle sizes, and supports Node.js and Deno environments.

Polymer is a legacy open-source JavaScript library created by Google for building components based on Web Components standards.

The library introduced declarative custom elements, data binding, shadow DOM helpers, and reusable component packaging, and later evolved into the Lit project focused on lightweight and faster component development.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

highlightjs.org #656,024

polymer-library.polymer-project.org

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Polymer component technology is 3 times more popular than Highlight.js.

Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Polymer is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while Highlight.js is more popular in Russia, China, and Ukraine.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Brazil

Canada

Australia

France

India

Switzerland

Awards

⬆️ 65th most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 68th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 84th most popular in Korea in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 86th most popular in Ukraine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 91st most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.

🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Components category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Components category.
🥈 Second most popular in Switzerland in the Components category.
🥈 Second most popular in Israel in the Components category.
🥈 Second most popular in Belgium in the Components category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Polymer is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Highlight.js is more commonly used on Internet services, blogs and wiki, and software and hardware sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Blogs/Wiki

Entertainment

Online Shopping

Software/Hardware

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#101

#130

#2,549

#2,616

#2,837

Name

Rank

#1,184

#3,104

#3,213