🆚 SmoothScroll vs. Waypoints
- 📈 Waypoints is four times more popular than SmoothScroll.
- 🌎 Waypoints is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Spain.
- 🌍 SmoothScroll is more popular in Japan, Rwanda, and the Faroe Islands.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SmoothScroll
WaypointsType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Smooth scrolling experience for websites.
Waypoints is an open-source 
JavaScript library that executes functions when users scroll to specific elements on a web page.
It provides a simple API for executing functions when elements reach specified scroll positions, includes extensions for infinite scrolling and sticky elements, and is available as standalone, 
jQuery, and 
Zepto builds.
Headquarters
West Linn, Oregon, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #40
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #11
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Waypoints JavaScript library is 4 times more popular than SmoothScroll.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Waypoints is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Spain, while SmoothScroll is more popular in Japan, Rwanda, and the Faroe Islands.
United States
Germany
Spain
United Kingdom
Italy
India
France
Australia
Brazil
Japan
Awards
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Rwanda in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 26th most popular in Korea in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in South Africa in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 32nd most popular in Switzerland in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Oman in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Myanmar in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Cote D'Ivoire in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Zambia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Thailand in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Waypoints is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while SmoothScroll is more commonly used on recreation and hobbies, and public information sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Health
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Jarallax🗃️ 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 3,603,678 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.