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Popper

popper.js.org
Open source

Popper is a positioning engine. Its purpose is to calculate the position of an element to make it possible to position it near a given reference element. It is commonly used for tooltips, popovers, and dropdowns in web applications.

Popper belongs toMiscellaneouscategory.

73websites

use it — 2.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#7of 34

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 141)

21public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

4.08% of all websites we track run Popper

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,555 websites · refreshed weekly

How Popper sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

56PerformanceLowaverage site: 5086AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8996Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about as fast as the average site

Popper sites
4.2 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Popper sites load in 2.9–5.3 s. Home page weight: 3.7 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 21 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services38%
  • Cloudflare14%
  • Google Cloud10%
  • Automattic5%
  • Other33%
United States 62%Canada 5%CL 5%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software48%
Business Services19%
Software as a Service (SaaS)10%
Cybersecurity5%

Share of 21 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

How Popper sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Popper sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Tippy.js27×OWL Carousel6×Bootstrap5×Slick4×jQuery UI4×GSAP3×Font Awesome3×cdnjs3×Google Ads3×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Popper on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 73 Popper sites that run the whole stack.

9 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Popper + Bootstrap + jsDelivr + cdnjs

12.3%9 of 73 sites
#2

Popper + Bootstrap + WordPress + Yoast SEO

9.6%7 of 73 sites
#3

Popper + GSAP + YouTube + Adobe Experience Manager + Handlebars

5.5%4 of 73 sites
#4

Popper + jsDelivr + WordPress

8.2%6 of 73 sites
#5

Popper + WordPress + Elementor

8.2%6 of 73 sites
#6

Popper + cdnjs + WordPress

6.8%5 of 73 sites
#7

Popper + Bootstrap + Google Maps

6.8%5 of 73 sites
#8

Popper + jsDelivr + Unpkg

6.8%5 of 73 sites
#9

Popper + Bootstrap + Unpkg

5.5%4 of 73 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 73 Popper sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Analytics80%Facebook Pixel26%Linkedin Insight Tag22%Google Tag Manager66%Google Ads16%HubSpot14%OneTrust12%Yoast SEO12%
AnalyticsTag managerAdvertisingMarketingCookie consentSearch visibility

Similar tools in its category

Miscellaneous: 141 tools known, 34 seen in our scans

Open Graph1,524 sitesAlternativeWebpack938 sitesAlternativeHTTP/3858 sitesAlternativeModule Federation624 sitesAlternativePWA489 sitesAlternativeRSS322 sitesAlternativeLottieFiles67 sitesAlternativePyScript59 sitesAlternative

How websites combine Popper with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Needs another tool 11Complements another tool 3Integrates with another 3Built on a platform 1

Websites using Popper

73 websites use Popper: 2.9% of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Popper

How many websites use Popper?
We found Popper on 73 of the 2,555 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (2.9%). 21 of them have a public status page.
What is Popper often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Popper is often found alongside Google Analytics (79.5% of its sites), Bootstrap (63% of its sites), PHP (45.2% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Popper?
Other miscellaneous tools we recognize include Open Graph, Webpack, HTTP/3, Module Federation.

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