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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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Javascript Statistics
Helena KowalczykWritten by Helena Kowalczyk·Edited by Min-ji Park·Fact-checked by Claire Beaumont
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.

Key Takeaways

  • JavaScript is used by 98.7% of all websites as of 2023
  • 92% of devs want to continue with JS
  • npm registry has 2.3M packages as of 2024
  • V8 engine scores 300+ on Speedometer 3.0
  • 1.2M vulns reported in JS pkgs 2023

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01 · Category

Adoption & Market Share30 stats

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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%
Interpretation

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 Preferences30 stats

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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
Interpretation

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 Ecosystem29 stats

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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
Interpretation

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.

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04 · Category

Performance Benchmarks28 stats

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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
Interpretation

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.

05 · Category

Vulnerabilities & Security25 stats

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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
Interpretation

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.
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Helena Kowalczyk. (2026, February 13). Javascript Statistics. Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/javascript-statistics
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Helena Kowalczyk. "Javascript Statistics." Gitnux, 13 Feb 2026, https://gitnux.org/javascript-statistics.
Chicago
Helena Kowalczyk. 2026. "Javascript Statistics." Gitnux. https://gitnux.org/javascript-statistics.

Sources & references

60 datasets cited across this report · attribution is report-level

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