🆚 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 China.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
MooToolsType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
MooTools is an open-source 
JavaScript library that simplifies DOM manipulation, event handling, AJAX, animations, and object-oriented application development.
It extends native JavaScript and DOM objects with additional methods, and provides built-in effects and transitions, 
CSS selector support, and utilities for cookies and 
JSON.
Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
Headquarters
Rome, Italy
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #68
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #97
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The MooTools JavaScript library is 1.8 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 China.
United States
Germany
Russia
Italy
United Kingdom
France
Poland
Spain
Japan
Ukraine
Awards
- ⬆️ 27th most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Kazakhstan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Ukraine in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 36th most popular in Greece in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 56th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 60th most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 63rd most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 65th most popular in Bulgaria 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, fashion and beauty, and forum, bulletin boards sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Entertainment
Internet Services
Sports
Health
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 3,603,958 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.