ES Module Shims on new websites
Polyfill that enables import maps and ES module features in browsers.
- Sites using ES Module Shims
- 169,992
- since Jul 2026
- Last 30 days
- 3.2%
-
of new sites, to Oct 18
+0.1 pts on the 30 days before - Last 7 days
- 3.2%
- of new sites, 7-day average
+0.2 pts on the week before
| First seen | Jul 2, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Last seen | Oct 19, 2026 |
| Website | github.com |
What we found
- About 1 in 30 websites that went live in the last 30 days were built with ES Module Shims (3.2%).[1]
- Almost all new ES Module Shims sites also use Shopify.
- It is unusually common on .store domains: 11% of the domains running it, against 2.1% of domains across new sites.
Share of new sites using ES Module Shims
The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use ES Module Shims, since 10 September.
Who uses ES Module Shims
| Type | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | 31,531 | 71.6% | |
| Health | 4,531 | 10.3% | |
| Games | 1,460 | 3.3% | |
| Design | 1,016 | 2.3% | |
| Social | 1,012 | 2.3% | |
| Content | 943 | 2.1% | |
| Finance | 852 | 1.9% | |
| Productivity | 842 | 1.9% | |
| Education | 632 | 1.4% | |
| Developer Tools | 551 | 1.3% | |
| Marketing | 342 | 0.8% | |
| Hiring & HR | 111 | 0.3% |
| Country | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,991 | 22.8% | ||
| 5,282 | 20.1% | ||
| 4,494 | 17.1% | ||
| 3,481 | 13.2% | ||
| 2,114 | 8.0% | ||
| 720 | 2.7% | ||
| 685 | 2.6% | ||
| 603 | 2.3% | ||
| 494 | 1.9% | ||
| 411 | 1.6% | ||
| 355 | 1.4% | ||
| 256 | 1.0% |
| Ending | Sites | Share | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | 117,263 | 69.1% | |
| .store | 18,116 | 10.7% | |
| .co | 5,518 | 3.3% | |
| .uk | 4,417 | 2.6% | |
| .fr | 4,410 | 2.6% | |
| .in | 3,537 | 2.1% | |
| .us | 2,950 | 1.7% | |
| .online | 2,507 | 1.5% | |
| .ca | 2,380 | 1.4% | |
| .net | 1,872 | 1.1% | |
| .org | 900 | 0.5% | |
| .se | 742 | 0.4% |
| Sites | Green | Bar |
|---|---|---|
| ES Module Shims | 89% | |
| All new sites | 47% |
Javascript Library on new sites
| # | Movement | Tool | Share of category[4] | Bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – |
|
34.4% | |
| 2 | – |
|
16.2% | |
| 3 | – |
|
14.5% | |
| 4 | – |
|
10.7% | |
| 5 | – |
|
8.2% | |
| 6 | ▲1 |
|
6.9% |
All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Javascript Library tool. All 1550 in Javascript Library
Often used with ES Module Shims
| Tool | Sites with both | vs all new sites |
|---|---|---|
|
|
89,012 | 18x |
|
|
169,895 | 17x |
|
|
116,327 | 16x |
|
|
169,887 | 4.2x |
|
|
24,111 | 4.2x |
Tools that turn up far more often on ES Module Shims sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.
Recently launched products built on ES Module Shims
292 of the 169,992 sites using ES Module Shims are product launches we list individually. The other 169,700 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.
Showing the most recent 12 of 292.
Watches, exports and the API give you all 169,992 sites using ES Module Shims, from £15 a month.
Notes
- These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
- 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.
- 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.
- Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: UI Library.
How this page is made
FirstSited 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 ES Module Shims when we detect ES Module Shims 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 we detect technologies · How we find new sites