GraphQL

Meta, Menlo Park, California, United States

GraphQL is a data query and manipulation language for APIs typically used for remote client-server communications.

According to our data, GraphQL is detected on 1% of all websites.

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📊 Rankings and Market Share

We have data on 34,343 websites that use GraphQL. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.

The highest rated site using GraphQL is facebook.com.

#	Website	Rank	Country	Language
1	facebook.com	#2	United States	English
2	instagram.com	#5	United States	English
3	netflix.com	#19	United States	English
4	soundcloud.com	#40	Germany	English
5	medium.com	#41		English
6	patreon.com	#47	United States	English
7	nytimes.com	#50	United States	English
8	quora.com	#81		American English
9	ebay.com	#92	United States	American English
10	stackoverflow.com	#101		English
11	dailymotion.com	#115	France	American English
12	mail.ru	#123	Russia	Russian
13	playstation.com	#130	Japan	American English
14	wp.pl	#131	Poland	Polish
15	shutterstock.com	#132	United States	English
16	behance.net	#139	United States	American English
17	salesforce.com	#151	United States	English
18	walmart.com	#162		American English
19	atlassian.com	#165	United States	English
20	theatlantic.com	#169	United States	English

Most of the sites that use GraphQL:

🌎 Countries📢 Languages⭐ TLDs🗃️ Domain Categories

Most of the sites using GraphQL are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Most GraphQL users speak English, German, or Dutch.

GraphQL is especially popular on .com top-level domains.

The primary market segments for websites utilizing GraphQL include business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising.

These are some of the best GraphQL alternatives.

Rank	Name
1	CSS Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A stylesheet language used to control the presentation of HTML and XML documents, defining layout, colors, typography, and responsive behavior across different devices.
2	HTML Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States A markup language used to create web pages and is the de facto standard for documents displayed in web browsers.
14	YAML Seattle, Washington, United States A human-readable data serialization language designed for representing structured data and exchanging it between systems and programming languages.
23	Sass A stylesheet language that compiles to CSS and allows developers to use variables, nested rules, mixins, and functions.
26	Less A backward-compatible CSS language extension inspired by Sass that supports variables, mixins, operations, and functions.

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GraphQL is owned by Meta Platforms, Inc., headquartered in Menlo Park, California, United States.

The majority of GraphQL users are from the United States.

According to our data, GraphQL is used on thousands of sites, including facebook.com, instagram.com, and netflix.com.

Overall, we found GraphQL on 13 government sites in the United States.

Yes. In total, we know of 60 academic websites in the United States that use GraphQL.

GraphQL is a moderately popular standard, ranking ahead of 34 other standards we track.

Alternatives and possible competitors to GraphQL may include CSS, HTML, and YAML.

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 3,531,690 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on June 19, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.