🆚 Observable vs. Quarto
- 📈 Quarto is three times more popular than Observable.
- 🌍 Quarto is more popular in all countries.
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About
Observable is a collaborative web-based platform for creating interactive data visualizations, dashboards, and analytical notebooks.
It uses reactive notebooks that combine 
JavaScript, SQL, 
HTML, 
Markdown, and live data sources, supports real-time collaborative editing and version history, offers embeddable visualizations and connections to databases such as MySQL, 
PostgreSQL, and 
SQLite, and includes built-in support for 
D3.js.
Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system based on Markdown that allows users to write in plain-text Markdown or work with 
Jupyter notebooks and embed executable code in Python, R, Julia, or 
Observable JS.
It supports 📖 Pandoc-style Markdown with equations, citations, cross-references, figure panels, and advanced layout, and renders a single source into formats such as HTML, PDF, 
MS Word, ePub, presentations, websites, blogs, or books.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Data Science category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Static Site Generators category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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MkDocs🗃️ 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 3,580,056 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.