🆚 JS Cookie vs. Polyfill
- 📈 Polyfill is noticeably more popular than JS Cookie.
- 🌎 Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 JS Cookie is more popular in Vietnam, Iran, and Turkey.
Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PolyfillType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
A simple, lightweight 
JavaScript library for handling browser cookies.
Polyfill.io is an open-source JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them.
After a supply chain attack in 2024 involving its cdn.polyfill.io domain, the service was discontinued and is now safely mirrored and maintained by 
Cloudflare under independent management.
Headquarters
Germany
GitHubPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #8
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #4
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Polyfill JavaScript library is 1.5 times more popular than JS Cookie.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, while JS Cookie is more popular in Vietnam, Iran, and Turkey.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Italy
Russia
Japan
France
Australia
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in El Salvador in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Hungary in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Jamaica in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Curacao in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Polyfill is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and blogs and wiki, while JS Cookie is more commonly used on online shopping, real estate, and recreation and hobbies sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
jQuery
UAParser.js
Regenerator
Fastly Polyfill
Babel🗃️ 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 3,512,920 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.