🆚 IRC vs. QQ
- 📈 QQ is much more popular than IRC.
- 🌎 QQ is more popular in China, Hong Kong, and the United States.
- 🌍 IRC is more popular in Germany, France, and Russia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ 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 43 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 the United States, while IRC is more popular in Germany, France, and Russia.
China
Hong Kong
United States
Netherlands
Cambodia
Germany
Taiwan
Singapore
Philippines
South Africa
Awards
- 🔥 13rd most popular in Germany in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in the United States in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in China in the Social Media category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Cambodia in the Instant Messaging category.
- ⭐ 6th 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, and technical information sites.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Games
Online Shopping
Portal Sites
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Tencent 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.