🆚 Leaflet vs. OpenLayers
- 📈 Leaflet is much more popular than OpenLayers.
- 🌍 Leaflet is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ OpenLayers is particularly popular in Germany.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
An open-source 
JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps.
OpenLayers is an open-source, feature-packed library for creating interactive maps on the web.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #59
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #179
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Leaflet JavaScript library is 9 times more popular than OpenLayers.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Leaflet is more popular than OpenLayers in all countries.
United States
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
United Kingdom
Poland
Japan
Netherlands
Czech Republic
Awards
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 39th most popular in Latvia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Luxembourg in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 42nd most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 77th most popular in Bulgaria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 110th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 114th most popular in France in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 132nd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 135th most popular in Poland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Leaflet is more popular than OpenLayers in all market segments.
Business
Travel
Marketing/Merchandising
Public Information
Real Estate
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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.