🆚 JSON vs. Text
- 📈 JSON is much more popular than Text.
- 🌍 JSON is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
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About
JSON (
JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight, language-independent data exchange format derived from JavaScript and used to structure and transmit data between systems.
It represents data as key-value pairs and ordered arrays, supports various data types, and is widely used in web APIs, configuration files, and data storage.
The plain text document format.
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
JSON is 90 times more popular than Text.
Total websites
Market share
Standards
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
JSON is more popular than Text in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Spain
Italy
Australia
Netherlands
Japan
Canada
Awards
- 🥉 Third most popular in Kenya in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uganda in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Ghana in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Zimbabwe in the Standards category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Senegal in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in China in the Standards category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Hong Kong in the Standards category.
- 🔥 19th most popular in Belgium in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Japan in the Standards category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Iran in the Standards category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
JSON is more popular than Text in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
CSS
HTML
YAML
WebAssembly🗃️ 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.