🆚 Scriptaculous vs. Velocity

Type

JavaScript library
JavaScript library

About

Script.aculo.us is an open-source JavaScript library built on the Prototype framework that provides visual effects, user interface controls, and AJAX utilities for web applications.

It includes a core set of five combinable effects for opacity, scaling, movement, highlighting, and parallel execution, supports drag-and-drop and sortable lists, provides autocompletion and in-place editing controls, and offers DOM utilities and a unit testing framework.

Velocity is an accelerated JavaScript animation engine.

Headquarters

Tucson, Arizona, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source

Categories

JavaScript Libraries › Rank #148
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #107
Animation › Rank #14
Animation › Rank #9

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Velocity JavaScript library is 1.9 times more popular than Scriptaculous.
Total websites

Market share

JavaScript Libraries
Animation

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Velocity is more popular in the United States, Russia, and Japan, while Scriptaculous is more popular in Germany, Brazil, and Poland.
United States
Russia
Germany
Japan
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Spain
Netherlands
Australia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Velocity is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Scriptaculous is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and games sites.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Health
Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
rosszlanyok.hu
#3,534
#5,081
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Name
Rank
#1,395
#1,959
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See also

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