Easter Egg Tools
The easter egg tools we detect on new sites, ranked by how many use each. Part of Other.
- Tools tracked
- 5
- in Other
- Sites
- 3,768
- using at least one easter egg tool
- Above 1%
- 1
- tool on more than 1% of them
What we found
- GNU Terry Pratchett runs on more than half of the sites using an easter egg tool (>99%), 289 times as many sites as Neko.
The leading easter egg tools
| # | Movement | Tool | Country | Share | Sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | GNU Terry Pratchett Tribute to the author of Discworld, inspired by the clacks semaphore network in his novels. "GNU" means: send the message on, do not log it, turn it around at the end of the line. A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. | >99% | 3,751 | |
| 2 | – | Neko Retro cursor-chasing cat sprite widget popular on personal homepages. | 0.3% | 13 | |
| 3 | – |
jsPaint
Open-source web-based recreation of MS Paint, often embedded on sites as a fun easter egg.
|
0.1% | 4 | |
| 4 | AnyBrowser.com | <0.1% | 1 | ||
| 5 |
Browser Ponies
Open source My Little Pony desktop-pony widget that animates on top of a web page.
|
<0.1% | 1 |
Share is of the 3,768 sites using an easter egg tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days.
Recently launched products using easter egg tools
| Product | Launched |
|---|---|
| WordNet Explorer | 17 Oct 2026 |
| Sinpros Audio Match EQ Hub | 12 Oct 2026 |
| SOST AI | 11 Oct 2026 |
| Firefox 157 | 10 Oct 2026 |
| Raytriangle | 9 Oct 2026 |
| Peterszentkiralyi | 6 Oct 2026 |
Often built with
Other kinds of tool most often found on the same sites, leaving out the plumbing every site has (DNS, CDN, hosting).
- Font 18
- Package CDN 13
- Analytics 10
- Server 9
- CSS Framework 8
- Javascript Library 7