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Javascript framework usage among top websites

June 11, 2008

Which Javascript frameworks are the most common?

To answer that question, we here at Pingdom have examined a set of almost 200 popular websites to see if they use a Javascript framework, and in that case which framework they have chosen. The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit.

We quickly saw that Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit were not used at all by these sites, which lead us to focus on the other four in this article.

Prototype

Prototype is one of the earlier Javascript frameworks and is also included in the Ruby on Rails framework. Of the websites in this test, a total of 13 used the Prototype framework.

• CNN
  
• The New York Times
  
• Digg
  
• Apple
  
• Veoh.com
  
• TypePad
  
• Fox News Channel
  
• Finetune
  
• iLike
  
• Last.fm
  
• Twitter
  
• Hakia
  
• YouSendIt
  

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