🆚 Prototype vs. YUI
- 📈 Prototype is three times more popular than YUI.
- 🌎 Prototype is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan.
- 🌍 YUI is more popular in Argentina, Norway, and Peru.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
YUIType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Prototype is a 
JavaScript framework that aims to ease development of dynamic web applications.
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
New York, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Prototype JavaScript library is 3 times more popular than YUI.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Prototype is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Japan, while YUI is more popular in Argentina, Norway, and Peru.
United States
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Russia
Italy
Spain
Brazil
Awards
- ⬆️ 55th most popular in the Czech Republic in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 59th most popular in Lithuania in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 60th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 61st most popular in Germany in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 63rd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- 🔥 20th most popular in Argentina in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Norway in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Canada in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Prototype is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, business, and marketing and merchandising, while YUI is more commonly used on forum, bulletin boards, non-profit, advocacy and NGO, and health sites.
Online Shopping
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
jQuery
Zepto
RxJS
Yahoo company profile🗃️ 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 3,431,368 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.