🆚 MooTools vs. Prototype
- 📈 MooTools is noticeably more popular than Prototype.
- 🌎 MooTools is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.
- 🌎 Prototype is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Switzerland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
MooTools is a collection of 
JavaScript utilities for DOM management, AJAX, and event handling.
Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #67
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #87
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MooTools JavaScript library is 1.6 times more popular than Prototype.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
MooTools is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia, while Prototype is more popular in Japan, Brazil, and Switzerland.
United States
Germany
Russia
Italy
United Kingdom
France
Poland
Spain
Japan
Ukraine
Awards
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Kazakhstan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Algeria in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Ukraine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 55th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 59th most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 60th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 63rd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
MooTools is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Prototype is more commonly used on online shopping, real estate, and games sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Internet Services
Entertainment
Sports
Public Information
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.