Companies Using CanvasJS

CanvasJS is a paid chart library, so I expected its list to read like a list of buyers. The raw count doesn't. Our October 2026 crawl finds the library on 8,241 live domains, but most of them carry it for a WordPress stats plugin, not for charts of their own. Once we take those out, 1,947 domains remain, and 1,110 of them match a company record. That cleaned figure is the one this page uses. I loaded the 50 companies on our list in a browser, opened 50 random CanvasJS domains, and read the page code of 206 others to see who put the library there.

What the raw count is made of

Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics, by wp-buy, lists 30,000+ active installations on wordpress.org. Its code enqueues cdn.canvasjs.com/canvasjs.min.js on every public page, then uses it for a small visitor chart in the admin bar that only site administrators see. In the page code of 206 random live CanvasJS domains, 169 showed the library and 116 of those (68.6%) loaded it through this plugin. None of the 33 plugin pages I opened drew a chart. The CDN file is always the newest release, so a plugin site reports whatever build was current on the day we read it. A first cut on the current 3.17.x series missed about 360 plugin sites we'd last read on 3.15 or 3.16 builds (10 of the 12 readable ones in a sample loaded the plugin), so the rule now removes any domain whose latest reading matched the series current on that day: 6,292 domains, plus 11 for-sale or gambling sites.

Two errors remain. Real charts that happened to run the current build are removed with the plugin sites, and plugin pages that report no version stay in. The largest carrier left is MinistryPlatform, church software whose widget script bundles CanvasJS 3.6.3, which we logged on 121 of the 1,947 domains (6.2%). On the five MinistryPlatform churches on our list, no chart appeared on the home page.

Sales signal: a raw CanvasJS list is mostly noise. Filter out any site whose page code carries the plugin's canvasjs-free-js tag, then treat MinistryPlatform churches as a separate list; they bought church software, not a chart library.

What the versions say

We can't chart the cleaned count back through time, because the cut works on each domain's latest reading, so the usage chart has a single October point. Versions are more telling. Among live domains in the clean set, 694 run a 1.x build and 510 a 2.x build, 1,204 between them, or 61.8% of the 1,947. On our named list it's starker: of the 31 companies that serve their own copy and report a version, 24 are on 1.x or 2.x. On the raw basis, 2,151 domains have dropped CanvasJS on at least one hostname since we began tracking it on 16 March 2026, and when we checked, 174 still ran it on another hostname.

"On a CanvasJS list, the version number is the most useful column. The current release usually means the WordPress plugin. A 1.x or 2.x build usually means a team that wrote charts into its own app and left them there." - Sophie Clarke, Product Marketing Manager at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: those 1,204 old builds are a modernisation conversation for any chart vendor, and an upgrade conversation for CanvasJS itself.

The companies behind the domains

49.67% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 76.03% have 50 or fewer. It's an older base than you'd guess for a JavaScript library: 36.06% were founded before 2000. Our list of 50 leans larger. We confirmed CanvasJS on 39 of them: 34 serve their own copy, usually behind a log-in, and five churches get it through MinistryPlatform. The own copies include Vonovia's partner portal (version 1.7.0), Tower Semiconductor's customer portal (3.12.8), Jackson Lewis's workthruIT site (2.2), Freeport-McMoRan's corporate site (1.9.9) and the investor site of Chambal Fertilisers (1.8.0).

Sales signal: at a large company, the CanvasJS owner is the team behind a portal or reporting page. Look for log-in pages, investor sites and dashboards on the detection URL, and talk to that application's owner, not the marketing team.

Industry and geography

Three industries stand out. Religious Institutions lead at 10.07%, Real Estate follows at 9.16% and Financial Services at 8.04%; nothing else reaches 4%. The churches are MinistryPlatform. Real estate is partly a family of Australian estate-agent WordPress themes that ship CanvasJS from the same assets/canvas folder, which helps put Australia third among countries with 94 matched companies, behind the United States (302) and India (146). India's entries include three financial firms on the same 2.3.2 build: Bajaj Capital, Arihant Capital and Paisalo Digital.

Sales signal: the financial-services slice is the most valuable one here. Customer portals at Indian brokers and lenders still run a 2.x build, a major version behind, which is an opening for anyone selling front-end rebuilds.

Overlap with other chart libraries

There's no migration table, because no pair passes our switching tests. Across all CanvasJS domains, before the plugin cut, 464 also run Chart.js today, and of the 574 ever seen with both, 80.8% still run both. Highcharts shares 73 domains, ApexCharts 46 and amCharts 38. Chart.js is on 323,384 domains in our category table, about 166 times CanvasJS's cleaned count.

"Sites that run CanvasJS and Chart.js together tend to keep both. Four in five still do, so a second chart library usually means a second project, not a planned switch." - Sophie Clarke, Product Marketing Manager at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: a site with two chart libraries has two codebases to maintain. That's the consolidation pitch, for whichever library you sell.

The stack around it

Across the 1,947 domains in our clean live set, Bootstrap runs on 63.17% and jQuery on 95.89%, while WordPress is down to 39.19% once the plugin sites are gone. Joomla and Drupal each pass 1%. Google Analytics is on 55.42% and Pendo on 3.75%. GoDaddy hosts 14.54% and Hostinger 4.01%. That's the stack of hand-built portals and older PHP sites as much as WordPress blogs.

Sales signal: pitch to developers and IT teams, not site owners. A Bootstrap and jQuery stack with an old chart library is a rebuild candidate.

Licence and pricing

CanvasJS is sold by Fenopix, Inc. Its licence page, checked on 13 October 2026, lists perpetual chart licences from $299 for one non-SaaS website to $1,999 for unlimited developers, each with a year of updates. Its FAQ gives free licences to students and to individuals for personal, non-commercial projects, not to companies or government bodies. The build on its CDN says in its header that it can be used for evaluation for up to 30 days without a commercial licence. CanvasJS's home page sells speed: 100,000 data points rendered in a few hundred milliseconds.

Sales signal: trial and free builds show a CanvasJS.com credit link on every chart, and the commercial build removes it. A visible credit on a company's charts tells you which build they run.

Key takeaways

1. 1,947 live domains after removing the stats plugin's loads, 0.41% of the category and 17th of 55; 8,241 before the cut.
2. About two-thirds of sampled raw CanvasJS sites load it only for one WordPress plugin's admin chart.
3. The cleaned base runs old code: 1,204 domains on 1.x or 2.x builds.
4. Churches (MinistryPlatform), Australian estate agents (one theme family) and Indian financial firms are the visible clusters.
5. CanvasJS rarely replaces Chart.js; 464 domains run both.

Sales applications

Outreach template: "Your partner portal still loads CanvasJS 1.7.0. Is anyone maintaining those charts, or is a rebuild on the list for next year?"

Targeting: on TechnologyChecker.io, filter CanvasJS companies to more than 200 employees and to Financial Services or Real Estate, then check the detection URL for a log-in or portal page.

Competitive angle: start with sites that run CanvasJS and Chart.js together, and with 1.x and 2.x builds.

The full list of 1,947 CanvasJS domains, with 1,110 matched companies, is on TechnologyChecker.io.