PrismJS on new websites

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Sites using PrismJS
7,342
7,055 found by StackScope, 287 via launch platforms
Last 30 days
0.1%
of new sites, to Oct 18
-0.0 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.1%
of new sites, 7-day average
+0.0 pts on the week before
Rank in Javascript Library
#53
of 1548 tools, all time
Found via
  • StackScope Wider Web 6,347
  • StackScope Discovery (Indie) 708
  • Product Hunt 195
  • Hacker News 60
  • Other 20
  • PeerPush 12
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Most recent launch Untitled site, Oct 19, 2026
Website prismjs.com
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What we found

  1. PrismJS appeared on about 1,800 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
  2. It is 4.5 times more common among product launches than among other new sites.
  3. It is unusually common on .online domains: 9.2% of the domains running it, against 3.6% of domains across new sites.

Share of new sites using PrismJS

0.0% 0.2% 0.4% 0.6% Apr Jun Aug Oct [2] [3]

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

Who uses PrismJS

Kind of site 2,906 sites with a known type, all time
TypeSitesShareBar
Education 503 17.3%
Developer Tools 407 14.0%
E-commerce 380 13.1%
Content 315 10.8%
AI 296 10.2%
Health 259 8.9%
Finance 202 7.0%
Productivity 136 4.7%
Marketing 124 4.3%
Social 94 3.2%
Games 78 2.7%
Hiring & HR 51 1.8%
Design 31 1.1%
Crypto 24 0.8%
Directory 6 0.2%
Country[4] likely for 857 of 7,342 sites (11.7%)
CountrySitesShareBar
India 158 18.4%
Japan 129 15.1%
United Kingdom 104 12.1%
United States 73 8.5%
France 64 7.5%
China 49 5.7%
Canada 47 5.5%
Switzerland 33 3.9%
Brazil 20 2.3%
Germany 19 2.2%
Sweden 16 1.9%
Türkiye 16 1.9%
South Korea 12 1.4%
Australia 10 1.2%
Italy 10 1.2%
Domain ending 7,328 sites, all time
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 4,188 57.2%
.online 634 8.7%
.org 224 3.1%
.in 221 3.0%
.dev 202 2.8%
.xyz 169 2.3%
.ai 151 2.1%
.net 150 2.1%
.co 146 2.0%
.site 122 1.7%
.io 117 1.6%
.uk 113 1.5%
.app 99 1.4%
.me 89 1.2%
.ca 74 1.0%
Green hosting[5] 287 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
Using PrismJS 56%
Every new site we checked 47%

Javascript Library on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[6] Bar
1 – jQuery 14.1% 34.5%
2 – React Router 6.6% 16.2%
3 – Motion 6.0% 14.6%
4 – TanStack Router 4.4% 10.8%
5 – Swiper 3.4% 8.3%
…
53 ▼1 PrismJS 0.1% 0.3%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Javascript Library tool. All 1548 in Javascript Library

Often used with PrismJS

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
React Router 2,236 4.6x
jQuery 2,883 2.8x
PHP 2,666 2.2x

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

Recent launches using PrismJS

Notes

  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. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.
  6. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: UI Library.

How this page is made

StackScope looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards PrismJS when we detect PrismJS on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How StackScope detects technologies · How StackScope Discovery works

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