🆚 IRC vs. QQ
- 📈 QQ is much more popular than IRC.
- 🌍 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Cambodia.
- 🌎 IRC is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
QQType
Instant messaging app
Instant messaging app
About
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a text-based chat system for instant messaging supported by many clients such as mIRC, XChat, ChatZilla and others.
Tencent QQ is a Chinese instant messaging software platform.
It supports text, voice, and video chat, file transfers, and group messaging, allows users to create customizable avatars, integrates social networking features through QQ Zone, and includes additional services such as games, music, and online shopping.
Headquarters
Shenzhen, China
Pricing
Free ✔️
Free ✔️
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The QQ instant messaging app is 32 times more popular than IRC.
Total websites
Market share
Instant Messaging
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and Cambodia, while IRC is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
China
Hong Kong
United States
Cambodia
Germany
Netherlands
France
Taiwan
South Africa
Venezuela
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Hong Kong in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
QQ is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and blogs and wiki, while IRC is more commonly used on software and hardware, technical information, and shareware and freeware sites.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Games
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Technical/Business Forums
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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- 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 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.