🆚 Microsoft FrontPage vs. Visual Studio
- 📈 Microsoft FrontPage is much more popular than Visual Studio.
- 🌎 Microsoft FrontPage is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Visual Studio is more popular in Vietnam.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Microsoft FrontPageType
HTML editor
HTML editor
About
Microsoft FrontPage was a WYSIWYG 
HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of 
Microsoft Office until it was discontinued in 2003.
It offered drag-and-drop page design, automatic hyperlink management, built-in templates, and integration with Microsoft technologies such as Active Server Pages (ASP) and FrontPage Server Extensions for publishing dynamic content.
Visual Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) developed by Microsoft.
Headquarters
Redmond, Washington, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free version ❌
$149
Free version ✔️Visual Studio Community
Professional$45/month
Enterprise$250/month
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Microsoft FrontPage HTML editor is 18 times more popular than Visual Studio.
Total websites
Market share
HTML Editors
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Microsoft FrontPage is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Visual Studio is more popular in Vietnam.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Canada
Netherlands
Japan
Spain
Brazil
France
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Denmark in the HTML Editors category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the Czech Republic in the HTML Editors category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the HTML Editors category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Finland in the HTML Editors category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the HTML Editors category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the HTML Editors category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Microsoft FrontPage is more popular than Visual Studio in all market segments.
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Entertainment
Business
Personal Pages
Travel
Public Information
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Recreation/Hobbies
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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NetBeans🗃️ 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.