🆚 Spry vs. YUI
YUI is three times more popular than Spry.
YUI is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia.Spry is more popular in India, Taiwan, and China.
Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
JavaScript library
JavaScript library
About
Spry is a deprecated JavaScript framework by Adobe that enables the rapid development of Ajax-powered web pages.
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
San Jose, California, United States
New York, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #223
JavaScript Libraries › Rank #163
Legacy › Rank #53
Legacy › Rank #34
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The YUI JavaScript library is 3 times more popular than Spry.
Total websites
Market share
JavaScript Libraries
Legacy
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
YUI is more popular in the United States, Germany, and Russia, while Spry is more popular in India, Taiwan, and China.
United States
Germany
Russia
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Spain
Italy
France
Netherlands
Awards
- ⬆️ 41st most popular in Japan in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 49th most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 52nd most popular in the United Kingdom in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 168th most popular in Japan in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- ⬆️ 194th most popular in the United States in the JavaScript Libraries category.
- 🔥 18th most popular in Russia in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Argentina in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 25th most popular in Canada in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 29th most popular in Spain in the Legacy category.
- ⬆️ 30th most popular in the United States in the Legacy category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
YUI is more popular among sites focused on forum, bulletin boards, business, and education and reference, while Spry is more commonly used on sports and public information sites.
Forum/Bulletin Boards
Business
Education/Reference
Marketing/Merchandising
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Health
Entertainment
Internet Services
Online Shopping
Recreation/Hobbies
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ 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 4,046,631 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.

