🆚 JS Cookie vs. SWFObject
- 📈 JS Cookie is much more popular than SWFObject.
- 🌍 JS Cookie is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SWFObjectType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
JS Cookie is an open-source, lightweight 
JavaScript library for managing browser cookies.
It provides a simple API for setting, retrieving, and removing cookies, supports custom encoding and decoding, and is less than 800 bytes when gzipped.
SWFObject is a deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash (swf) files.
Headquarters
Germany
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The JS Cookie JavaScript library is 24 times more popular than SWFObject.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JS Cookie is more popular than SWFObject in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Italy
France
Australia
Netherlands
Brazil
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Iran in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Afghanistan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Ireland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Estonia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Vietnam in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Slovakia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 11st most popular in Poland in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Hong Kong in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
JS Cookie is more popular than SWFObject in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Travel
Health
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
🗃️ 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 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.