🆚 JavaScript Required vs. JSDoc Tags
- 📈 JavaScript Required is three times more popular than JSDoc Tags.
- 🌎 JavaScript Required is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 JSDoc Tags is more popular in Korea, Namibia, and Guinea.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Other technology
Other technology
About
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JSDoc tags are annotations in JavaScript comments beginning with the '@' symbol that are parsed by the JSDoc tool to produce structured API documentation.
They document parameters, return values, types, classes, modules, and cross-references, and are often stripped from production bundles.
Headquarters
United Kingdom
Website
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
JavaScript Required technology is 3 times more popular than JSDoc Tags.
Total websites
Market share
Other
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JavaScript Required is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while JSDoc Tags is more popular in Korea, Namibia, and Guinea.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
France
Netherlands
Korea
Italy
Spain
Australia
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
JavaScript Required is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while JSDoc Tags is more commonly used on real estate, sports, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Internet Services
Health
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Entertainment
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ 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 3,827,502 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.


