🆚 Socket.io vs. WebTorrent
- 📈 Socket.io is much more popular than WebTorrent.
- 🌍 Socket.io is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ WebTorrent is particularly popular in Ireland.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Socket.ioType
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Socket.IO is a library that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between the browser and the server.
WebTorrent is a streaming torrent client for 
Node.js and the browser.
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #189
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #312
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Socket.io JavaScript library is 416 times more popular than WebTorrent.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Socket.io is more popular than WebTorrent in all countries.
United States
Russia
Germany
India
Brazil
France
Vietnam
Canada
United Kingdom
Netherlands
Awards
- ⬆️ 97th most popular in Vietnam in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 98th most popular in Russia in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 157th most popular in India in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 161st most popular in Brazil in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 162nd most popular in Canada in the JavaScript Libraries category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Socket.io is more popular than WebTorrent in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Finance/Banking
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Games
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
Axios
Highlight.js
SignalR
WebSocket
Fetch
jQuery
Modernizr🗃️ 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 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.