pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) on new websites

Web archive replay toolkit that rewrites pages using the wombat.js client-side proxy.

Sites using pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit)
4,759
since Jul 2026
Last 30 days
0.1%
of new sites, to Oct 18
no change on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.1%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Developer Tools
#2
of 504 tools, all time
First seen Jul 8, 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website github.com

What we found

  1. pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) appeared on about 1,200 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
  2. It is the second most common developer tool on new sites. Vite appears on about 300 times as many.
  3. Nine in ten new pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) sites also use Cloudflare DNS.
  4. It is unusually common on .de domains: 4.4% of the domains running it, against 0.3% of domains across new sites.

Share of new sites using pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit)

0.00% 0.05% 0.10% 0.15% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit), since 10 September.

Who uses pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit)

Kind of site 933 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
E-commerce 270 28.9%
Health 207 22.2%
Education 95 10.2%
Content 89 9.5%
Finance 45 4.8%
Games 42 4.5%
Social 42 4.5%
Productivity 36 3.9%
Developer Tools 28 3.0%
Marketing 27 2.9%
Design 23 2.5%
Hiring & HR 11 1.2%
Country[2] 1,035 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
Germany 198 19.1%
Canada 167 16.1%
Switzerland 111 10.7%
Netherlands 104 10.1%
France 63 6.1%
Slovakia 53 5.1%
US 53 5.1%
Czechia 40 3.9%
UK 35 3.4%
Italy 35 3.4%
Poland 34 3.3%
India 30 2.9%
Domain ending 4,759 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 2,928 61.5%
.net 275 5.8%
.org 267 5.6%
.ca 251 5.3%
.de 206 4.3%
.ch 155 3.3%
.nl 109 2.3%
.fr 59 1.2%
.sk 53 1.1%
.in 50 1.1%
.uk 46 1.0%
.cz 45 1.0%

Developer Tools on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category Bar
1 – Vite 23.7% 98.3%
2 – pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) 0.1% 0.3%
3 ▲1 Instant.page 0.1% 0.2%
4 ▼1 Weglot <0.1% 0.2%
5 ▲2 Rack CORS <0.1% 0.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Developer Tools tool. All 504 in Developer Tools

Often used with pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit)

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
jQuery 3,241 4.8x
WordPress 1,994 3.4x
Cloudflare DNS 4,414 3.1x
Google Analytics 1,494 3.0x
PHP 2,269 2.9x

Tools that turn up far more often on pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

Recently launched products built on pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit)

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.

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 pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) when we detect pywb (Wayback Machine toolkit) 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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