JavaScript library that plays HLS adaptive video streams in browsers using Media Source Extensions.
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See how alerts work4,492 sites
4,471 found by StackScope, 21 via launch platforms
- StackScope Wider Web 4,344
- StackScope Discovery (Indie) 127
- Product Hunt 17
- Other 3
- PeerPush 1
hls.js has been detected on 4,492 launches we've crawled. The 7-day rolling share is 0.1%, roughly steady week on week. Most recent detection: Nugget Streams, today.
It's most commonly paired with Google Fonts, jQuery, and jsDelivr. By product type, the launches using it are most often Content (34%), Health (18%), and Social (8%). By domain ending, launches using it are 2.4 times as likely as the average launch to live on a .online domain. The 18 scored launches using hls.js average a StackScope score of 5.6 out of 10, against 6.4 across all launches we score.
What kind of products ship with hls.js
780 launches
Domain endings using hls.js
4,471 sites
- .com 77.97%
- .online 6.15%
- .site 2.97%
- .net 1.59%
- .xyz 1.21%
- .app 1.10%
- .in 0.96%
- .org 0.96%
- .co 0.56%
- .store 0.47%
- .uk 0.47%
- .ai 0.45%
- .io 0.36%
- .space 0.36%
- .ca 0.34%
Country
160 of 4,492 sites, where we are semi-confident of the country.
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Brazil 25.00%
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India 17.50%
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United Kingdom 10.62%
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China 8.75%
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France 6.25%
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Canada 3.12%
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Switzerland 2.50%
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Australia 1.88%
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Iran 1.88%
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Japan 1.88%
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South Korea 1.88%
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Mexico 1.88%
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New Zealand 1.88%
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United States 1.88%
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Belgium 1.25%
Share of new sites using hls.js
Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.
The shaded parts of the chart are measured against a different set of sites.
Grey: until 8 July 2026 we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.
Amber: on 10 September 2026 we improved our infrastructure so we can 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 that date. We record each site as it was when we found it.
The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time, so it can step at these lines without the technology itself changing. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.
Javascript Library leaders
| Tool | % of launches | % of category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | – |
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14.54% | 35.29% |
| #2 | – |
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6.54% | 15.87% |
| #3 | – |
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6.05% | 14.69% |
| #4 | – |
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4.29% | 10.40% |
| #5 | – |
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3.62% | 8.80% |
| … | ||||
| #62 | ▼6 |
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0.10% | 0.23% |
Percentages show adoption among indie launches: the share of all analysed launches, and of launches using any Javascript Library tool.hls.js is typically used alongside jQuery rather than instead of it.Among September launches it ranked #64 in Javascript Library, down from #58 in August. All 1425 in Javascript Library →
Recent launches we can show
148 of the 4,492 sites using hls.js are product launches we list individually. The other 4,344 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. How StackScope Discovery works
Showing the most recent 12 of 148.
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