🆚 Modernizr vs. SWFObject
- 📈 Modernizr is much more popular than SWFObject.
- 🌎 Modernizr is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 SWFObject is more popular in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Modernizr
SWFObjectType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Modernizr is an open-source feature detection library that identifies browser support for 
HTML, 
CSS, and 
JavaScript features and allows websites to adapt accordingly.
It enables developers to detect supported browser features at runtime, apply progressive enhancement, load polyfills only when required, and provide fallbacks for unsupported features.
SWFObject is a deprecated framework for detecting the Adobe Flash Player plugin and embedding Flash (swf) files.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Modernizr JavaScript library is 20 times more popular than SWFObject.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Modernizr is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while SWFObject is more popular in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Italy
Spain
Japan
France
India
Australia
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Lebanon in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Bulgaria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Croatia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Luxembourg 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.
Modernizr is more popular than SWFObject in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
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.
🗃️ 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.