🆚 IRC vs. XMPP

📈 IRC is three times more popular than XMPP.
🌎 IRC is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
🌍 XMPP is more popular in Russia and the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

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.

XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) is a set of open technologies for instant messaging, presence, multi-party chat, voice and video calls, and collaboration.

Headquarters

Parker, Colorado, United States

Website

irchelp.org

xmpp.org #2,649,151

Pricing

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The IRC instant messaging app is 3 times more popular than XMPP.

Total websites

Market share

Instant Messaging

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

IRC is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France, while XMPP is more popular in Russia and the United Kingdom.

United States

Germany

France

Russia

Canada

Switzerland

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Finland

Italy

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

IRC is more popular than XMPP in all market segments.

Software/Hardware

Blogs/Wiki

Technical/Business Forums

Games

Entertainment

Internet Services

Technical Information

Business

Forum/Bulletin Boards

Shareware/Freeware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#1,895

#26,475

#29,652

#62,746

Name

Rank

#213,096

#282,487

#347,882

#373,622

#535,334