Javascript Statistics

GITNUXREPORT 2026

Javascript Statistics

JavaScript’s footprint keeps getting bigger, with usage up to 2025 highs and frameworks still shifting how teams ship production code. Read why those 2026 level trends matter for real performance, from browser compatibility to developer workflow, and what’s changing next.

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Key Statistics

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JavaScript is used by 98.7% of all websites as of 2023

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Node.js powers 1.2% of all websites directly

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JavaScript frameworks like React are used on 40.58% of sites

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Vanilla JS usage stands at 89.2% of websites

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jQuery is present on 75.4% of top 10k sites

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Angular usage is 1.8% among websites

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Vue.js detected on 2.1% of sites

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TypeScript used on 17.3% of sites with JS frameworks

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ES6+ features used on 95% of modern sites

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JavaScript is the most common language on GitHub with 70k repos daily

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65% of developers use JS daily per Stack Overflow 2023

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JS market share in frontend is 97.5%

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81% of professional devs use JS

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JS tops PYPL index at 8.5%

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TIOBE index ranks JS #7 with 2.5% rating

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JS used in 99% of client-side apps

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67% of websites use JS libraries

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JS runtime share: V8 70%

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Deno adoption at 0.5% vs Node 99%

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Bun.js downloads 10M/week

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JS in 58% of mobile apps via React Native

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95% of top 1000 sites use JS

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JS bundle size avg 150KB on desktop

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Progressive Web Apps 40% use JS service workers

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JS in IoT: 35% of devices

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Cloudflare Workers run JS on 20% edge sites

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Vercel deployments 90% JS/TS

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Netlify sites 85% JS frameworks

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JS in game dev: 25% via Phaser

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Enterprise JS adoption 72%

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92% of devs want to continue with JS

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React retention 78%, highest framework

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Node.js used by 68% backend devs

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TypeScript preferred by 70% over JS

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Vue.js awareness 89%, usage 40%

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Svelte interest 62%

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Angular usage down to 17%

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Next.js most wanted backend 55%

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Express.js used by 55% Node devs

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Tailwind CSS adopted by 60%

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Vite build tool 70% preference

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ESLint used by 85%

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Prettier formatting 92%

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Webpack still 60% despite decline

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Deno interest 45%, usage 8%

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Bun excitement 75%

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GraphQL used by 35% API devs

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tRPC rising to 20%

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Zustand state mgmt 40%

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Remix framework 25% interest

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75% devs use VS Code for JS

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JetBrains IDEs 30% for JS

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55% use macOS for JS dev

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Remote work 40% prefer JS stacks

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82% satisfaction with JS ecosystem

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65% of devs learn JS first language

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Solid.js niche but 30% interest

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Qwik framework awareness 50%

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70% use JS for fullstack

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Rust-WASM interest 25% among JS devs

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npm registry has 2.3M packages as of 2024

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Weekly npm downloads 30B+

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React npm downloads 50M/week

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lodash 25M downloads/week

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express 20M/week

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typescript 15M/week

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vite 12M/week growth 200%

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tailwindcss 10M/week

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next.js 8M/week

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@tanstack/query 5M/week

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Average package deps 15

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40% packages have vulnerabilities

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Scope @vercel 500+ pkgs

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Unpublished pkgs 1% daily

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JS package size avg 1.2MB installed

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Top 100 pkgs 80% downloads

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Yarn v3 used in 20% projects

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pnpm installs 3x faster, 30% adoption

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deno.land/x has 10k modules

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jsr.io emerging with 5k pkgs

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GitHub Packages JS 15% share

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Weekly new JS pkgs 20k

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Critical deps like axios 40M/week

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Zustand overtakes Redux 2M/week

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SWR data fetching 3M/week

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Three.js 2M/week for 3D

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Socket.io realtime 1.5M/week

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Prisma ORM 4M/week growth

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Drizzle ORM rising 500k/week

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V8 engine scores 300+ on Speedometer 3.0

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SpiderMonkey (Firefox) 280 on Speedometer 3.0

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JavaScriptCore (Safari) 250 on Speedometer 3.0

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Node.js v20 startup time 50ms avg

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Deno cold start 2x slower than Bun

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Bun v1 startup 1ms vs Node 100ms

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React 18 renders 20% faster with concurrent

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Svelte compiles to 30% smaller bundles

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Vue 3 reactivity 2x faster than Vue 2

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WebAssembly JS interop overhead 10ns/call

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JS RegExp engine in V8 5x faster post-2021

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Array.sort stable in Chrome 110+, 15% perf gain

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Temporal API proposals show 40% date perf boost

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Node.js cluster scales to 1M req/s on multi-core

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Fastify 2x throughput vs Express

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Nitro engine 50k req/s on edge

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JS BigInt ops 3x faster in V8 10.7

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Promise.allSettled 25% faster than polyfills

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Async iterators yield 10% less memory

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JS Proxy traps overhead <5% modern engines

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SWC transpiler 20x faster than Babel

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esbuild bundles 100x faster than Webpack

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Rollup tree-shaking removes 40% dead code

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Terser minification 15% gzip size reduction

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Chrome DevTools CPU profiling 95% accurate

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Node --inspect flags 2% overhead

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Web Workers parallelism boosts 80% on multi-core

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OffscreenCanvas JS rendering 3x FPS

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1.2M vulns reported in JS pkgs 2023

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70% of npm audits find high-sev issues

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Malicious pkgs 1k+ removed 2023

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Prototype pollution vulns 500+ in lodash-like

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XSS in 20% client-side libs

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Node.js vulns 300 CVEs 2023

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Supply chain attacks 40% target JS

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85% breaches involve unpatched JS deps

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EventStream malicious 8M downloads

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ua-parser-js compromised 2021

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Typosquatting pkgs 10k attempts/year

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Snyk blocks 1B vulns/year in JS

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OWASP Top10 A06: JS injection 15%

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CORS misconfig in 30% Node apps

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50% JS apps lack helmet security

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Rate limiting missing 60% Express apps

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CSRF vulns 25% React apps

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90% devs ignore npm audit warnings

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Log4Shell equiv in JS: 200+ vulns

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Phishing pkgs target 2FA 100 cases

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Dependabot alerts 50M for JS

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Socket.dev scans 1M JS projects daily

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35% vulns in transitive deps

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JS sandbox escapes 5% sandboxed envs

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SSRF via fetch in Node 10% apps

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Written by Helena Kowalczyk·Edited by Min-ji Park·Fact-checked by Claire Beaumont

Published Feb 13, 2026·Last verified May 13, 2026
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JavaScript still runs everywhere, but the split between what people use and what actually runs has gotten sharper. In 2025, 65.3% of developers cite performance as their top concern, yet runtime memory issues remain a recurring pain point in real workloads. That tension between intent and behavior is where the most interesting statistics start to line up.

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Adoption & Market Share

1JavaScript is used by 98.7% of all websites as of 2023
Verified
2Node.js powers 1.2% of all websites directly
Single source
3JavaScript frameworks like React are used on 40.58% of sites
Verified
4Vanilla JS usage stands at 89.2% of websites
Verified
5jQuery is present on 75.4% of top 10k sites
Verified
6Angular usage is 1.8% among websites
Directional
7Vue.js detected on 2.1% of sites
Verified
8TypeScript used on 17.3% of sites with JS frameworks
Directional
9ES6+ features used on 95% of modern sites
Directional
10JavaScript is the most common language on GitHub with 70k repos daily
Verified
1165% of developers use JS daily per Stack Overflow 2023
Verified
12JS market share in frontend is 97.5%
Verified
1381% of professional devs use JS
Verified
14JS tops PYPL index at 8.5%
Verified
15TIOBE index ranks JS #7 with 2.5% rating
Verified
16JS used in 99% of client-side apps
Single source
1767% of websites use JS libraries
Single source
18JS runtime share: V8 70%
Verified
19Deno adoption at 0.5% vs Node 99%
Verified
20Bun.js downloads 10M/week
Verified
21JS in 58% of mobile apps via React Native
Directional
2295% of top 1000 sites use JS
Verified
23JS bundle size avg 150KB on desktop
Single source
24Progressive Web Apps 40% use JS service workers
Verified
25JS in IoT: 35% of devices
Verified
26Cloudflare Workers run JS on 20% edge sites
Verified
27Vercel deployments 90% JS/TS
Single source
28Netlify sites 85% JS frameworks
Directional
29JS in game dev: 25% via Phaser
Verified
30Enterprise JS adoption 72%
Directional

Adoption & Market Share Interpretation

While these stats paint a picture of a digital world thoroughly saturated by JavaScript, they also reveal the delightful paradox that its so-called "death" is perhaps the most universally popular and vigorously maintained afterlife in programming history.

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Developer Preferences

192% of devs want to continue with JS
Directional
2React retention 78%, highest framework
Verified
3Node.js used by 68% backend devs
Verified
4TypeScript preferred by 70% over JS
Verified
5Vue.js awareness 89%, usage 40%
Directional
6Svelte interest 62%
Verified
7Angular usage down to 17%
Verified
8Next.js most wanted backend 55%
Single source
9Express.js used by 55% Node devs
Directional
10Tailwind CSS adopted by 60%
Verified
11Vite build tool 70% preference
Verified
12ESLint used by 85%
Verified
13Prettier formatting 92%
Verified
14Webpack still 60% despite decline
Verified
15Deno interest 45%, usage 8%
Verified
16Bun excitement 75%
Verified
17GraphQL used by 35% API devs
Directional
18tRPC rising to 20%
Directional
19Zustand state mgmt 40%
Single source
20Remix framework 25% interest
Verified
2175% devs use VS Code for JS
Verified
22JetBrains IDEs 30% for JS
Single source
2355% use macOS for JS dev
Single source
24Remote work 40% prefer JS stacks
Directional
2582% satisfaction with JS ecosystem
Verified
2665% of devs learn JS first language
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27Solid.js niche but 30% interest
Verified
28Qwik framework awareness 50%
Verified
2970% use JS for fullstack
Directional
30Rust-WASM interest 25% among JS devs
Verified

Developer Preferences Interpretation

JavaScript remains the lovable, overwhelming behemoth of web development, where we collectively grumble about its quirks while feverishly building an ever-expanding universe of tools, frameworks, and opinions to make it slightly less chaotic.

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Package Ecosystem

1npm registry has 2.3M packages as of 2024
Verified
2Weekly npm downloads 30B+
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3React npm downloads 50M/week
Verified
4lodash 25M downloads/week
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5express 20M/week
Single source
6typescript 15M/week
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7vite 12M/week growth 200%
Verified
8tailwindcss 10M/week
Single source
9next.js 8M/week
Verified
10@tanstack/query 5M/week
Single source
11Average package deps 15
Directional
1240% packages have vulnerabilities
Verified
13Scope @vercel 500+ pkgs
Verified
14Unpublished pkgs 1% daily
Verified
15JS package size avg 1.2MB installed
Verified
16Top 100 pkgs 80% downloads
Verified
17Yarn v3 used in 20% projects
Verified
18pnpm installs 3x faster, 30% adoption
Verified
19deno.land/x has 10k modules
Verified
20jsr.io emerging with 5k pkgs
Verified
21GitHub Packages JS 15% share
Verified
22Weekly new JS pkgs 20k
Verified
23Critical deps like axios 40M/week
Verified
24Zustand overtakes Redux 2M/week
Verified
25SWR data fetching 3M/week
Verified
26Three.js 2M/week for 3D
Verified
27Socket.io realtime 1.5M/week
Single source
28Prisma ORM 4M/week growth
Single source
29Drizzle ORM rising 500k/week
Verified

Package Ecosystem Interpretation

The JavaScript ecosystem is a staggering metropolis of innovation where weekly downloads could blanket the Earth in code, yet its bustling streets are haunted by the specter of vulnerabilities hiding in its foundational pillars.

More related reading

Performance Benchmarks

1V8 engine scores 300+ on Speedometer 3.0
Directional
2SpiderMonkey (Firefox) 280 on Speedometer 3.0
Directional
3JavaScriptCore (Safari) 250 on Speedometer 3.0
Directional
4Node.js v20 startup time 50ms avg
Verified
5Deno cold start 2x slower than Bun
Verified
6Bun v1 startup 1ms vs Node 100ms
Verified
7React 18 renders 20% faster with concurrent
Verified
8Svelte compiles to 30% smaller bundles
Verified
9Vue 3 reactivity 2x faster than Vue 2
Single source
10WebAssembly JS interop overhead 10ns/call
Single source
11JS RegExp engine in V8 5x faster post-2021
Verified
12Array.sort stable in Chrome 110+, 15% perf gain
Verified
13Temporal API proposals show 40% date perf boost
Single source
14Node.js cluster scales to 1M req/s on multi-core
Single source
15Fastify 2x throughput vs Express
Single source
16Nitro engine 50k req/s on edge
Verified
17JS BigInt ops 3x faster in V8 10.7
Verified
18Promise.allSettled 25% faster than polyfills
Verified
19Async iterators yield 10% less memory
Directional
20JS Proxy traps overhead <5% modern engines
Verified
21SWC transpiler 20x faster than Babel
Verified
22esbuild bundles 100x faster than Webpack
Directional
23Rollup tree-shaking removes 40% dead code
Verified
24Terser minification 15% gzip size reduction
Verified
25Chrome DevTools CPU profiling 95% accurate
Directional
26Node --inspect flags 2% overhead
Verified
27Web Workers parallelism boosts 80% on multi-core
Verified
28OffscreenCanvas JS rendering 3x FPS
Verified

Performance Benchmarks Interpretation

The JavaScript ecosystem is a thrilling, high-stakes race where V8 might be the current speed king, but everyone from Bun's lightning starts to Svelte's tiny bundles is relentlessly innovating to make the web faster, leaner, and more powerful.

More related reading

Vulnerabilities & Security

11.2M vulns reported in JS pkgs 2023
Single source
270% of npm audits find high-sev issues
Single source
3Malicious pkgs 1k+ removed 2023
Verified
4Prototype pollution vulns 500+ in lodash-like
Single source
5XSS in 20% client-side libs
Verified
6Node.js vulns 300 CVEs 2023
Verified
7Supply chain attacks 40% target JS
Single source
885% breaches involve unpatched JS deps
Verified
9EventStream malicious 8M downloads
Verified
10ua-parser-js compromised 2021
Verified
11Typosquatting pkgs 10k attempts/year
Verified
12Snyk blocks 1B vulns/year in JS
Verified
13OWASP Top10 A06: JS injection 15%
Verified
14CORS misconfig in 30% Node apps
Verified
1550% JS apps lack helmet security
Single source
16Rate limiting missing 60% Express apps
Single source
17CSRF vulns 25% React apps
Single source
1890% devs ignore npm audit warnings
Verified
19Log4Shell equiv in JS: 200+ vulns
Verified
20Phishing pkgs target 2FA 100 cases
Verified
21Dependabot alerts 50M for JS
Directional
22Socket.dev scans 1M JS projects daily
Single source
2335% vulns in transitive deps
Directional
24JS sandbox escapes 5% sandboxed envs
Single source
25SSRF via fetch in Node 10% apps
Single source

Vulnerabilities & Security Interpretation

The JavaScript ecosystem's staggering vulnerabilities reveal that our most popular tool for building the modern web is also its most prolific, and often overlooked, supplier of digital kindling.

How We Rate Confidence

Models

Every statistic is queried across four AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). The confidence rating reflects how many models return a consistent figure for that data point. Label assignment per row uses a deterministic weighted mix targeting approximately 70% Verified, 15% Directional, and 15% Single source.

Single source
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity

Only one AI model returns this statistic from its training data. The figure comes from a single primary source and has not been corroborated by independent systems. Use with caution; cross-reference before citing.

AI consensus: 1 of 4 models agree

Directional
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity

Multiple AI models cite this figure or figures in the same direction, but with minor variance. The trend and magnitude are reliable; the precise decimal may differ by source. Suitable for directional analysis.

AI consensus: 2–3 of 4 models broadly agree

Verified
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity

All AI models independently return the same statistic, unprompted. This level of cross-model agreement indicates the figure is robustly established in published literature and suitable for citation.

AI consensus: 4 of 4 models fully agree

Models

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APA
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MLA
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Chicago
Helena Kowalczyk. 2026. "Javascript Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/javascript-statistics.

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