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4.4Market Shift
The 2024–2025 developer surveys show Playwright overtaking Selenium in new project adoption:
- Stack Overflow 2024: Playwright is the most-loved browser testing tool
- State of JS 2024: Playwright has the highest satisfaction rating among E2E frameworks
- npm downloads:
@playwright/testsurpassedselenium-webdriverin weekly downloads in 2024 - Job postings: "Playwright" appears in more new QA job listings than "Selenium" since mid-2024
Selenium remains dominant in total deployed codebases — enterprises with years of Selenium investment do not rewrite overnight. But the direction is clear.