🆚 Polyfill vs. Prototype
- 📈 Polyfill is much more popular than Prototype.
- 🌍 Polyfill is more popular in all countries.
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About
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.
Prototype is a JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
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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 Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 57th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 62nd most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 63rd most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 63rd most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 65th most popular in Finland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ 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 3,629,123 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.







