🆚 MooTools vs. YUI

Type

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.

YUI is a legacy, open-source JavaScript and CSS library for building interactive web applications with a focus on modular architecture and cross-browser consistency.

It includes over 30 modules covering DOM manipulation, event handling, animations, data utilities, and UI components, and provides a dependency management system with dynamic module loading.

Headquarters

Rome, Italy
New York, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

JavaScript Libraries › Rank #70
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #157
Legacy › Rank #33

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The MooTools JavaScript library is 5 times more popular than YUI.
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 YUI is more popular in Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Costa Rica.
United States
Germany
Russia
Italy
United Kingdom
Spain
Poland
Ukraine
France
Greece

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

MooTools is more popular among sites focused on business, education and reference, and marketing and merchandising, while YUI is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards sites.
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Health
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Blogs/Wiki
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,146
#6,282
#11,805
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Name
Rank
xxxbp.tv
#782
#1,299
#2,438
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See also

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