🆚 Picturefill vs. Polyfill
- 📈 Polyfill is much more popular than Picturefill.
- 🌎 Polyfill is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Japan.
- 🌍 Picturefill is more popular in the Marshall Islands.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Picturefill
PolyfillType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
A responsive image polyfill for <picture>, srcset, sizes, and more.
Polyfill.io is an open-source 
JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them.
It was originally owned by the Financial Times web team, then moved under community management, and after a supply chain attack in 2024 involving its cdn.polyfill.io domain, the service was discontinued and is now safely mirrored and maintained by 
Cloudflare and 
Fastly.
Headquarters
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
London, United Kingdom
Website
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Polyfill JavaScript library is 16 times more popular than Picturefill.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Polyfill is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Japan, while Picturefill is more popular in the Marshall Islands.
United States
Russia
Japan
United Kingdom
Spain
Italy
Germany
France
Australia
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Brazil in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Switzerland in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Estonia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Austria in the Legacy category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Kazakhstan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United Kingdom in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Polyfill is more popular than Picturefill in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Entertainment
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.