🆚 Highlight.js vs. Polymer

📈 Polymer is twice as popular as Highlight.js.
🌎 Polymer is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
🌍 Highlight.js is more popular in Russia, China, and Korea.

Statistics based on 3.8M+ 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 2.5 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 Korea.

United States

United Kingdom

Japan

Germany

Brazil

Canada

France

Australia

India

Italy

Awards

⬆️ 57th most popular in China in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 82nd most popular in Korea in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 90th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 93rd most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
⬆️ 94th most popular in Taiwan in the JavaScript Libraries category.

🥈 Second most popular in Canada in the Components category.
🥈 Second most popular in Belgium in the Components category.
🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Components category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Components category.
🥉 Third most popular in Brazil 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

Software/Hardware

Entertainment

Online Shopping

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#101

#130

#2,549

#2,616

#2,837

Name

Rank

#3,104

#3,213

#4,052