Developer Tools Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)

In our data, developer tools are the build and coding tools that leave a trace in a live website's code: bundlers such as Webpack, Turbopack, Vite and Parcel, compilers such as Babel, and embedded code editors such as CodeMirror and Monaco. We track 100 of them across about 1.8 million live sites. Webpack, Babel and Turbopack hold close to 78% of the category between them.

Webpack, by live sites. Our crawl finds its runtime on about 700,000 domains, roughly 38% of the developer tooling category, ahead of Turbopack at about 345,000 and Vite at about 95,000. Close to a third of the Webpack sites are Webflow sites, whose own runtime is a webpack bundle, and the count is a floor because webpack 5 usually renames the global our rule reads.

Yes, widely. Webpack's runtime appears on about 700,000 live domains in our crawl, more than any other developer tool. It's shrinking, though: it lost about 32,000 net domains over the latest 30 days, with roughly 43,000 dropping it against 11,000 adding it. Turbopack, the bundler Next.js now uses by default, is the only large build tool adding sites. A dropped site stopped showing the Webpack runtime; it may have rebuilt or gone offline.

Turbopack is the Rust-based bundler built by Vercel for Next.js, and Next.js now uses it by default for development and production builds. Our crawl finds it on about 345,000 live domains, nearly all of them Next.js sites, about 19% of the developer tooling category. It added about 88,000 net domains over 90 days, the largest gain of any developer tool we track.

Webpack still runs on about twice as many live sites: roughly 700,000 domains against about 345,000 for Turbopack. The direction is the opposite, though. Over the latest 30 days Turbopack added about 32,000 net domains while Webpack lost about 32,000. Both bundlers can sit inside the same Next.js project, and Next.js making Turbopack its default is the main reason Turbopack is growing.

Babel is still widely used to compile JavaScript, but a crawler can't see that step. What we can see is Babel's old runtime polyfill, which still loads on about 379,000 live domains, roughly 21% of the developer tooling category. That package has been deprecated for years in favour of core-js, and about a third of those sites are on Weebly. The row lost about 20,000 net domains in 30 days.

On live websites, Webpack by a wide margin: about 700,000 domains in our crawl against about 95,000 for Vite. That gap reflects what's deployed, including sites built years ago and site builders whose runtime is a webpack bundle, so it says little about what new projects pick. Both lost ground over the latest 30 days, Webpack about 32,000 net domains and Vite about 11,500.

Nothing to license. Webpack, Babel, Vite, Parcel and Turbopack are free, open-source projects under the MIT licence, so the cost is the engineering time to configure and maintain a build. The paid exception among the top rows is Dreamweaver, Adobe's desktop editor, sold through a Creative Cloud subscription. Airtable, which also appears in this category, has a free plan with paid tiers.

Its code is. Our crawl finds Dreamweaver's MM_ helper functions, the JavaScript it wrote into pages for image swaps and menus, on about 77,000 live domains, roughly 4% of the developer tooling category. That counts old pages that still carry the code, not current Adobe licences. The row lost about 2,500 net domains over the latest 30 days as old pages are rebuilt or taken down.

Gutenberg is WordPress's block editor. The editor itself ships with every WordPress install, but a separate Gutenberg plugin carries new editor features before they reach a WordPress release. Our crawl finds that plugin on about 64,000 live domains, roughly 3.5% of the developer tooling category, and WordPress.com serves about half of them. It is down about 16,000 domains over 90 days.