Stimulus on new websites

A modest JavaScript framework for adding behaviour to server-rendered HTML, part of the Hotwire suite.

Sites using Stimulus
6,141
since May 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 Framework
#8
of 69 tools, all time
First seen May 18, 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website stimulus.hotwired.dev

What we found

  1. Stimulus appeared on about 1,900 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]
  2. Almost all new Stimulus sites also use Rails.
  3. It is unusually common among content launches: 47%, against 6.3% across new sites.

Share of new sites using Stimulus

0.00% 0.05% 0.10% 0.15% 10 Sep Oct

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

What runs on Stimulus

Percentages are the all-time share of Stimulus sites that also use each one.

Who uses Stimulus

Kind of site 2,022 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
Content 955 47.2%
Productivity 157 7.8%
Health 131 6.5%
Developer Tools 124 6.1%
Finance 107 5.3%
Games 94 4.7%
Education 90 4.5%
Marketing 81 4.0%
Social 70 3.5%
E-commerce 67 3.3%
AI 61 3.0%
Hiring & HR 42 2.1%
Country[2] 442 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
France 76 17.2%
UK 76 17.2%
US 55 12.4%
Canada 39 8.8%
Brazil 34 7.7%
Germany 20 4.5%
Japan 16 3.6%
India 14 3.2%
Sweden 12 2.7%
Australia 11 2.5%
Switzerland 11 2.5%
Netherlands 8 1.8%
Domain ending 6,140 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 4,498 73.3%
.app 285 4.6%
.net 204 3.3%
.org 142 2.3%
.ai 89 1.5%
.io 88 1.4%
.uk 76 1.2%
.dev 72 1.2%
.fr 67 1.1%
.ca 61 1.0%
.co 61 1.0%
.online 61 1.0%
Green hosting[3] 146 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
Stimulus 69%
All new sites 47%

Framework on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[4] Bar
1 – React 26.7% 84.6%
2 – Vue.js 2.7% 8.5%
3 – Svelte 0.8% 2.4%
4 – Alpine.js 0.6% 2.0%
5 – Angular 0.3% 1.0%
…
8 ▲1 Stimulus 0.1% 0.3%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Framework tool. The most common alternatives to Stimulus on new websites are Svelte and Alpine.js. All 69 in Framework

Often used with Stimulus

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
SiteZoogle 2,824 966x
Bandzoogle 2,900 956x
SoundManager 2 2,732 850x
fitty 2,898 832x
Hotwire Turbo 5,891 813x

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

Recently launched products built on Stimulus

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: Meta Framework, Backend Framework.

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 Stimulus when we detect Stimulus 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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