Acorn (Roots) on new websites

1. Acorn (Roots) appeared on about 42 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. Nine in ten new Acorn (Roots) sites also use Vite.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Acorn (Roots), day by day for the last 90 days and weekly before that (left of the dashed line). It starts at our first detection. The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Acorn (Roots) itself changing.^[2][3]

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[5]	Bar
1	–	Express	1.7%	46.1%
2	–	Laravel	0.9%	25.9%
3	–	ASP.NET	0.6%	17.3%
4	–	Rails	0.2%	6.2%
5	–	Laravel Livewire	0.2%	5.0%
…
16	▲3	Acorn (Roots)	<0.1%	0.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Backend Framework tool. Among September launches it ranked #13 in Backend Framework, up from #16 in August. All 139 in Backend Framework

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
Vite	134	3.9x
nginx	39	2.8x
Google Tag Manager	47	2.7x

Tools that turn up far more often on Acorn (Roots) sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

11 of the 145 sites using Acorn (Roots) are product launches we list individually. The other 134 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts.

Site	Found	Also detected
Pivotly – Spin, Match, Clear | Colour Puzzle Game for iPhone pivotly.co.uk · Games · United Kingdom	Oct 14
Forge AI Bot Log. See which AI bots read your WordPress site forgeaibotlog.com	Sep 30
UrduCentral — Urdu Dictionary, Translation, Prayer Times urducentral.com	Sep 29
QuikConsole – Free Developer Tools That Run in Your Browser quikconsolecom.net · Developer Tools	Sep 11
Tabidoo tabidoo.cloud · Productivity · France	Aug 31
VertiLeads | Find Local Companies and Email New Leads vertileads.com · Marketing	Aug 27
Home - Claude Usage Limits claudeusagelimits.com · AI	Aug 27
Jämför offerter på solceller | Nordsolen nordsolen.se · Sweden	Aug 10
DateWarden datewarden.com · Productivity · United Kingdom	Jul 22
Do Gooder - Scale your charity in days, not months. dogooder.io · Finance	Jul 19
OctoPress – THE AI Agent for WordPress octopress.ai	Jul 10

The StackScope API serves all 145 sites using Acorn (Roots), filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well, so the share is measured against a much larger set of sites. For one continuous measure, view launch platforms only.
3. Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
4. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
5. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Framework, Programming Language.