🆚 Polyfill vs. TouchSwipe
- 📈 Polyfill is much more popular than TouchSwipe.
- 🌎 Polyfill is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 TouchSwipe is more popular in Mongolia and the Faroe Islands.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
PolyfillType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Polyfill.io is an open-source 
JavaScript library that provides modern web API features to older browsers that do not natively support them.
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 under independent management.
TouchSwipe is a 
jQuery plugin for detecting swipes and pinches on touch input devices.
cdnjs.cloudflare.com/polyfillPricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #4
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #42
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Polyfill JavaScript library is 7 times more popular than TouchSwipe.
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, the United Kingdom, and Japan, while TouchSwipe is more popular in Mongolia and the Faroe Islands.
United States
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
Russia
Germany
Italy
Australia
France
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Belarus in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Jamaica in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Curacao in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in the Faroe Islands in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Mongolia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Malta in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 33rd most popular in Spain in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 34th most popular in Iceland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Polyfill is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while TouchSwipe is more commonly used on sports sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Fastly Polyfill
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Swiper
jQuery UI Touch Punch🗃️ 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 3,371,563 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.