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#4 of 137 in Backend Framework In our data since Apr 2026 Last seen: Oct 16, 2026 Most recent launch: What changed in design-to-code tools this week · DesignEng Index, Oct 16, 2026 Website: rubyonrails.org

13,093 sites

12,723 found by StackScope, 370 via launch platforms

StackScope Wider Web 11,304 StackScope Discovery (Indie) 1,419 Product Hunt 231 Hacker News 58 PeerPush 49 Other 32
  • StackScope Wider Web 11,304
  • StackScope Discovery (Indie) 1,419
  • Product Hunt 231
  • Hacker News 58
  • PeerPush 49
  • Other 32
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About 1 in 450 websites that went live in the last 30 days were built with Rails (0.2%).

These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.

Extended by
CableReady 0.5% Hotwire Combobox 0.3% StimulusReflex 0.2% best_in_place <0.1%
Built on Rails
Discourse 1.5%

Percentages are the all-time share of Rails sites that also use each one.

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4,258 new sites with Rails first seen in the last 30 days.

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Share of new sites using Rails

Each dot is one launch day. Line is the 7-day rolling average; weekly averages before July 2026.

0.2%
last 7 days
-0.0pp vs prior week
0.2%
30 days to Oct 15
+0.0pp vs 30 days before
13,093
sites all time
since Apr 2026
Rails daily detection trend Before 8 July 2026: launch platforms only. We began crawling the wider web on this date, so the cohort this share is measured against changes here. 10 September 2026: we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live, so the cohort this share is measured against changes here. 5% 2% 0% Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Weekly averages before this point, daily after. Jul 18 · 33 / 24700 = 0.1% Jul 19 · 39 / 27640 = 0.1% Jul 20 · 39 / 23851 = 0.2% Jul 21 · 43 / 22944 = 0.2% Jul 22 · 37 / 24372 = 0.2% Jul 23 · 30 / 18101 = 0.2% Jul 24 · 29 / 13980 = 0.2% Jul 25 · 21 / 9550 = 0.2% Jul 26 · 47 / 21750 = 0.2% Jul 27 · 101 / 37233 = 0.3% Jul 28 · 111 / 41885 = 0.3% Jul 29 · 130 / 53559 = 0.2% Jul 30 · 143 / 48256 = 0.3% Jul 31 · 154 / 56048 = 0.3% Aug 1 · 136 / 54886 = 0.2% Aug 2 · 128 / 53850 = 0.2% Aug 3 · 140 / 52614 = 0.3% Aug 4 · 113 / 40704 = 0.3% Aug 5 · 83 / 35346 = 0.2% Aug 6 · 95 / 39149 = 0.2% Aug 7 · 105 / 40250 = 0.3% Aug 8 · 117 / 42805 = 0.3% Aug 9 · 103 / 37777 = 0.3% Aug 10 · 74 / 32323 = 0.2% Aug 11 · 84 / 34557 = 0.2% Aug 12 · 114 / 37135 = 0.3% Aug 13 · 180 / 55468 = 0.3% Aug 14 · 181 / 56751 = 0.3% Aug 15 · 153 / 55907 = 0.3% Aug 16 · 116 / 56270 = 0.2% Aug 17 · 94 / 45696 = 0.2% Aug 18 · 133 / 56636 = 0.2% Aug 19 · 101 / 51679 = 0.2% Aug 20 · 142 / 68973 = 0.2% Aug 21 · 209 / 93843 = 0.2% Aug 22 · 200 / 94188 = 0.2% Aug 23 · 213 / 93592 = 0.2% Aug 24 · 150 / 81708 = 0.2% Aug 25 · 171 / 71529 = 0.2% Aug 26 · 171 / 66854 = 0.3% Aug 27 · 214 / 87832 = 0.2% Aug 28 · 197 / 87905 = 0.2% Aug 29 · 175 / 88061 = 0.2% Aug 30 · 218 / 100668 = 0.2% Aug 31 · 212 / 100235 = 0.2% Sep 1 · 200 / 103413 = 0.2% Sep 2 · 206 / 108914 = 0.2% Sep 3 · 193 / 103275 = 0.2% Sep 4 · 277 / 98530 = 0.3% Sep 5 · 238 / 102853 = 0.2% Sep 6 · 224 / 89271 = 0.3% Sep 7 · 148 / 86119 = 0.2% Sep 8 · 146 / 77964 = 0.2% Sep 9 · 166 / 75510 = 0.2% Sep 10 · 212 / 83643 = 0.3% Sep 11 · 208 / 85544 = 0.2% Sep 12 · 124 / 56763 = 0.2% Sep 13 · 143 / 57987 = 0.2% Sep 14 · 152 / 59224 = 0.3% Sep 15 · 140 / 58180 = 0.2% Sep 16 · 149 / 58939 = 0.3% Sep 17 · 138 / 56745 = 0.2% Sep 18 · 125 / 53080 = 0.2% Sep 19 · 87 / 45268 = 0.2% Sep 20 · 100 / 44755 = 0.2% Sep 21 · 120 / 51659 = 0.2% Sep 22 · 135 / 55401 = 0.2% Sep 23 · 133 / 58304 = 0.2% Sep 24 · 149 / 53457 = 0.3% Sep 25 · 117 / 50756 = 0.2% Sep 26 · 252 / 101513 = 0.2% Sep 27 · 115 / 52130 = 0.2% Sep 28 · 133 / 61105 = 0.2% Sep 29 · 179 / 77847 = 0.2% Sep 30 · 149 / 69707 = 0.2% Oct 1 · 160 / 69219 = 0.2% Oct 2 · 143 / 64714 = 0.2% Oct 3 · 132 / 53731 = 0.2% Oct 4 · 123 / 52048 = 0.2% Oct 5 · 132 / 63685 = 0.2% Oct 6 · 150 / 67582 = 0.2% Oct 7 · 118 / 67654 = 0.2% Oct 8 · 154 / 69304 = 0.2% Oct 9 · 162 / 70336 = 0.2% Oct 10 · 142 / 60630 = 0.2% Oct 11 · 146 / 65589 = 0.2% Oct 12 · 140 / 66620 = 0.2% Oct 13 · 145 / 70915 = 0.2% Oct 14 · 142 / 70641 = 0.2% Oct 15 · 188 / 93404 = 0.2%
Mar 30, 2026 90 days Oct 15, 2026

The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without Rails itself changing.

Coverage details

Before the dashed line where the dots begin, the line is a weekly average. After it, the last 90 days are shown one day at a time.

Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well.

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.

The share is a proportion of whatever we were tracking at the time. For a single continuous measure, switch to launch platforms.

How StackScope detects technologies

What kind of sites use Rails

4,063 sites with a known type, all time

Content
25.2%
Health
15.1%
E-commerce
12.9%
Education
7.1%
Productivity
6.5%
Games
6.5%
Developer Tools
5.4%
Finance
5.0%
Social
4.9%
Marketing
3.9%
AI
2.7%
Design
1.9%
Hiring & HR
1.8%
Directory
0.9%
Crypto
0.4%

Domain endings using Rails

13,069 sites, all time

  • .com 68.3%
  • .org 3.4%
  • .app 3.2%
  • .fr 2.6%
  • .net 2.5%
  • .online 2.1%
  • .uk 1.7%
  • .ca 1.7%
  • .co 1.4%
  • .xyz 1.1%
  • .io 1.1%
  • .ai 1.1%
  • .br 1.0%
  • .site 0.9%
  • .store 0.9%

Country

Country likely for 2,159 of 13,093 sites (16.5%), all time.

How we know

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.

  • Brazil Brazil 28.7%
  • France France 16.3%
  • United States United States 13.1%
  • United Kingdom United Kingdom 9.4%
  • Canada Canada 7.0%
  • Australia Australia 2.6%
  • Germany Germany 2.4%
  • Indonesia Indonesia 2.0%
  • India India 1.9%
  • China China 1.6%
  • Sweden Sweden 1.5%
  • Vietnam Vietnam 1.3%
  • Russia Russia 1.2%
  • Ukraine Ukraine 1.2%
  • Japan Japan 1.1%

Green hosting

370 checked sites since Apr 2026.

What this means

The share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, against the average for every new site we checked.

  • Rails 60%
  • Average 47%

Backend Framework leaders

Tool % of sitesall time % of categoryall time
#1 – Express 1.7% 46.0%
#2 – Laravel 0.9% 26.1%
#3 – ASP.NET 0.6% 17.2%
#4 – Rails Current page 0.2% 6.2%
#5 – Laravel Livewire 0.2% 5.0%

Percentages show all-time adoption across the new sites we track: the share of all of them, and of the sites using any Backend Framework tool. All 137 in Backend Framework → Related categories: Framework, Programming Language

Often used with

Tool Sites vs all new sites
Stimulus 5,723 425x
Hotwire Turbo 6,016 388x
jQuery 8,082 4.3x
Google Analytics 4,041 3.0x
Google Tag Manager 4,602 3.0x

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

Recent launches using Rails

1,789 of the 13,093 sites using Rails are product launches we list individually. The other 11,304 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. How StackScope Discovery works

What changed in design-to-code tools this week · DesignEng Index Oct 16, 2026 Also detected DNSimple Mailchimp Mailgun nginx Social media scheduler for small businesses | Nuntio Oct 16, 2026 · Marketing Also detected Cloudflare Facebook Hotwire Turbo Instagram SEOview — All your SEO data in one place Oct 16, 2026 · Marketing Also detected mijn.host DNS nginx Vite WoW Name Generator: Race, Class & Style | WoW Forever Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Cloudflare DNS Google Fonts Google Search Console Hotwire Turbo Find Your Next Special in Miami Oct 16, 2026 Also detected Cloudflare Google Fonts Tailwind CSS Trix ManagEasily - Your family's money, managed easily Oct 16, 2026 · Finance Also detected Render Cloudflare Google Fonts Vite Bower: a private place for your people | Bower Oct 16, 2026 · Social Also detected Cloudflare Google Sign-In Hotwire Turbo OpenFreeMap Quietbill: Stripe invoices your customers download themselves Oct 16, 2026 · Finance Also detected Railway Cloudflare Google Fonts Hotwire Turbo 둘러보기 · 삿수다 Oct 16, 2026 · Productivity Also detected Caddy Cloudflare DNS Hotwire Turbo Stimulus Tiny Tendril Oct 15, 2026 · Health Also detected Fly.io DNSimple Hotwire Turbo Stimulus Missao — Every guest a photographer Oct 15, 2026 Also detected Cloudflare Google Fonts Hotwire Turbo Stimulus Dunmaris · Every level is earned Oct 15, 2026 · Games Also detected Google Fonts Hotwire Turbo Namecheap DNS Namecheap Email Forwarding

Showing the most recent 12 of 1,789.

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