🆚 HTML5 Boilerplate vs. Polymer
- 📈 Polymer is much more popular than HTML5 Boilerplate.
- 🌎 Polymer is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- 🌍 HTML5 Boilerplate is more popular in China, Russia, and Bangladesh.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PolymerType
Website component
Website component
About
A professional front-end template for building fast, robust, and adaptable web apps or sites.
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
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Polymer component technology is 8 times more popular than HTML5 Boilerplate.
Total websites
Market share
Components
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 Germany, while HTML5 Boilerplate is more popular in China, Russia, and Bangladesh.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Japan
Brazil
Canada
Australia
India
France
Switzerland
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in India in the Components category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in China in the Components category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Italy in the Components category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Turkey in the Components category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in the United States in the Components 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 than HTML5 Boilerplate in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Sports
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Travel
Health
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Google 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 3,655,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.