🆚 Signal vs. Skype
- 📈 Skype is much more popular than Signal.
- 🌍 Skype is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Signal
SkypeType
Legacy technology
Legacy technology
About
Signal was a customer intelligence platform that leveraged tag management and real-time data collection.
Skype was a communications platform for voice and video calls and sending instant messages that was retired on May 5, 2025 in favor of 
Microsoft Teams.
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Redmond, Washington, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️
Phone calls
World (unlimited mins)$16.79/month
USA (unlimited mins)$3.59/month
UK (30 mins)$1.79/month
Germany (100 mins)$3.59/month
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Skype legacy technology is 22 times more popular than Signal.
Total websites
Market share
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Skype is more popular than Signal in all countries.
Thailand
China
Russia
United States
India
Vietnam
Ukraine
Italy
Cambodia
Germany
Awards
- ⬆️ 45th most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 53rd most popular in Italy in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 54th most popular in France in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 55th most popular in Germany in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Thailand in the Legacy category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Cambodia in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in China in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Belarus in the Legacy category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Skype is more popular among sites focused on business, Internet services, and online shopping, while Signal is more commonly used on fashion and beauty, and finance and banking sites.
Business
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Travel
Blogs/Wiki
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Fashion/Beauty
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,359,906 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.