html5shiv on new websites

1. html5shiv appeared on about 250 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. Almost all new html5shiv sites also use jQuery.
3. It is unusually common on .in domains: 15% of the domains running it, against 3.6% of domains across new sites.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use html5shiv, since 10 September.

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[3]	Bar
1	–	jQuery	14.1%	34.5%
2	–	React Router	6.6%	16.2%
3	–	Motion	5.9%	14.6%
4	–	TanStack Router	4.4%	10.8%
5	–	Swiper	3.4%	8.3%
…
144	▼8	html5shiv	<0.1%	<0.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Javascript Library tool. html5shiv is typically used alongside jQuery rather than instead of it. Among September launches it ranked #147 in Javascript Library, down from #139 in August. All 1553 in Javascript Library

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
Theia Sticky Sidebar	998	1391x
Kirki	756	824x
OwlCarousel	763	133x
ElementsKit	805	113x
slick	1,061	96x

Tools that turn up far more often on html5shiv sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

7 of the 1,191 sites using html5shiv are product launches we list individually. The other 1,184 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
Computer Repair Shop ERP Software | Ticket Management System upsolvix.com · Productivity	Sep 6
ShoeTalent — Tuyển dụng ngành Da giày & Túi xách Việt Nam shoetalent.com	Aug 21
Brand Medix brandmedix.com · Health	Aug 19
Untitled site physicaliq.org · China	Aug 8
Loan Management Software for NBFCs | Finance Munshi financemunshi.com · Finance · India	Aug 4
Expenzey Scout expenzey.com · E-commerce	Jul 29
HOME V3 - Renbotics AI renbotics.in · India	Jul 10

Watches, exports and the API give you all 1,191 sites using html5shiv, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. 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.
3. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: UI Library.