🆚 VK vs. WhatsApp
- 📈 WhatsApp is four times more popular than VK.
- 🌎 WhatsApp is more popular in Brazil, India, and Spain.
- 🌍 VK is more popular in Russia, Belarus, and Estonia.
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About
VK is a Russian social media and social networking service that allows users to communicate, share content, and join online communities.
It supports personal profiles and groups, private and group messaging, news feeds, and sharing of photos, videos, and music.
WhatsApp is an instant messaging and Voice over IP (VoIP) service owned by Meta.
It allows users to send text and voice messages, share photos, videos, documents, and locations, make voice and video calls including group calls, supports end-to-end encryption, and provides a Business API for large-scale messaging and automation.
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Russia in the Social Media category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 5th most popular in Kazakhstan in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Uzbekistan in the Social Media category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Kyrgyzstan in the Social Media category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in India in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Instant Messaging category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Instant Messaging category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.