particles.js on new websites

Lightweight library for animated particle backgrounds.

Sites using particles.js
19,225
since Jun 2026
Last 30 days
0.2%
of new sites, to Oct 19
-0.1 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.2%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Javascript Library
#34
of 1551 tools, all time
First seen Jun 23, 2026
Last seen Oct 20, 2026
Website vincentgarreau.com

What we found

  1. About 1 in 450 websites that went live in the last 30 days were built with particles.js (0.2%).[1]
  2. Nine in ten new particles.js 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.

Share of new sites using particles.js

0.0% 0.1% 0.2% 0.3% 0.4% 10 Sep Oct

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

Who uses particles.js

Kind of site 4,586 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
Marketing 882 19.2%
Health 824 18.0%
E-commerce 730 15.9%
Education 478 10.4%
Finance 396 8.6%
Developer Tools 249 5.4%
Content 241 5.3%
Games 157 3.4%
Social 152 3.3%
Design 124 2.7%
Productivity 116 2.5%
Hiring & HR 99 2.2%
Country[2] 3,682 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
India 1,744 47.4%
France 401 10.9%
UK 334 9.1%
US 236 6.4%
Brazil 147 4.0%
Canada 107 2.9%
Australia 98 2.7%
Italy 52 1.4%
Germany 51 1.4%
Japan 49 1.3%
Switzerland 44 1.2%
Spain 41 1.1%
Domain ending 19,192 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 11,099 57.8%
.in 2,822 14.7%
.org 749 3.9%
.online 725 3.8%
.site 501 2.6%
.fr 413 2.2%
.uk 408 2.1%
.net 274 1.4%
.co 201 1.1%
.ca 186 1.0%
.store 162 0.8%
.xyz 158 0.8%
Green hosting[3] 198 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
particles.js 71%
All new sites 47%

Javascript Library on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[4] Bar
1 – jQuery 14.1% 34.4%
2 – React Router 6.6% 16.2%
3 – Motion 5.9% 14.5%
4 – TanStack Router 4.4% 10.8%
5 – Swiper 3.4% 8.2%
…
34 ▼4 particles.js 0.3% 0.8%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Javascript Library tool. particles.js is typically used alongside jQuery rather than instead of it. Among September launches it ranked #34 in Javascript Library, down from #30 in August. All 1551 in Javascript Library

Often used with particles.js

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
Royal Elementor Addons 12,917 292x
Jarallax 13,415 161x
Elementor 15,199 16x
Font Awesome 15,855 13x
Swiper 7,951 12x

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

Recently launched products built on particles.js

347 of the 19,225 sites using particles.js are product launches we list individually. The other 18,878 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 347.

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Notes

  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. 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.
  4. 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 particles.js when we detect particles.js 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

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