Companies Using Next.js

I have spent a decade building web crawling and technographic systems, and Next.js is the profile where I most want to argue with our own headline before anyone else does. As of our August 2026 crawl we verify 731,970 active domains running Next.js and matched 426,984 of them to a company record with industry, headcount and location. That is 66.6% of Static Site Generators and first place out of 26 tracked tools. The rank is solid. The 66.6% needs a caveat that most published share tables never give you.

1. Why 66.6% is not a like-for-like number

Every count in this category is a floor. These tools are found through what they leave behind in a build, and a site that strips its generator meta tag simply stops being visible to us. What matters is that the floors are not equally tight. Next.js announces itself in several independent ways that survive an ordinary production build, while most of the entries beneath it are visible in far fewer. So when the table shows Next.js at 731,970 and Hugo at 28,690, part of that distance is adoption and part of it is how much easier one of the two is to see.

I cannot decompose that, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. What I can tell you is which direction the error runs. The Next.js number is the tightest floor in the category and the small entries are the loosest, so the true category share of Next.js is lower than 66.6%, not higher. It is still first by a very large margin, and nothing else in this analysis depends on the exact figure.

"A share number you cannot break down is still worth publishing, as long as you say which way it is wrong. Ours is too high, and we would rather tell you that than defend a decimal point." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO at TechnologyChecker.io

2. Growth trajectory, and the one step to read carefully

The chart above shows the current crawl only. Our records, not plotted there, open in May 2017 with 6 domains, seven months after Vercel (then ZEIT) released Next.js in October 2016. The ramp that follows is genuine and steep: 29 domains by December 2017, 801 by the end of 2018, 3,097 by the end of 2019, 10,309 by the end of 2020. Then it compounds. 25,900 at the end of 2021, 54,635 at the end of 2022, 108,917 at the end of 2023 and 217,158 at the end of 2024.

There is a step between our March 2025 coverage and our June 2026 coverage that I would not hand to a sales team without a warning, and it is why the two are not drawn on one line, because it is not purely a rush of adoption. The set of domains we crawl turns over every month, dead sites leave and newly discovered ones arrive, and the signals we detect Next.js with broaden over time. Both of those are changes on our side. Read the level and the position rather than the slope across that step: 731,970 domains, first of 26, and close to twice the other 25 tools in the category put together.

Sales Signal: Adoption is not the question with this audience. Anyone who has built a React front end in the last three years has at least evaluated Next.js. The opening question is what they had to build around it, not whether they know it.

3. Customer profile

60.47% of the 405,343 matched deployments where we know headcount sit at 1 to 10 staff, and 84.35% at 50 or fewer. That is what an open source framework with no licence and no seat count looks like: a developer adopts it and nobody signs anything. By company age the 2020s cohort leads at 39.92% with the 2010s close behind at 36.35%, so roughly three quarters of this base belongs to companies founded since 2010.

The enterprise tail is thin as a share and large in absolute terms: 1,873 domains, 0.46% of the matched base, at companies with more than 10,000 staff. Amazon, Apple, IBM, Citigroup, AT&T, Verizon, Nike, Starbucks, HDFC Bank and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are all in there. Read the detection URLs before calling any of it a corporate standard. IBM's is developer.ibm.com, Uber's is jobs.uber.com, Apple's is checkcoverage.apple.com and Verizon's is mycareer.verizon.com. These are documentation sites, careers portals and single-purpose product properties, the kind of thing one team ships without a platform review.

Sales Signal: The conversion-ready band is 11 to 200 staff, 32.82% of the matched base. Large enough to hold a budget and to have hit the operational edges of a self-managed Next.js deployment, small enough that one missing capability blocks real work.

4. Geography

The United States leads with 106,707 domains and India is second at 33,991, ahead of the United Kingdom at 27,405, Brazil at 22,435 and Germany at 16,957. Canada at 13,876, France at 11,980, Australia at 11,666, the Netherlands at 9,138 and Turkey at 6,699 close the top ten. India in second place is the finding here, and our own named accounts are not small: Tata Consultancy Services, HDFC Bank, Larsen & Toubro, Jio and Flipkart all carry Next.js on at least one property.

Sales Signal: Concentrate paid conversion effort on the 106,707 US domains and the 27,405 in the UK. Treat India's 33,991 as reach. It is the second-largest population on this page and the one least likely to be well served by tooling priced in dollars.

5. Migration: Astro is the only corridor running against Next.js

We have tracked switching only since March 2026, so read this as recent movement, and note that the 90-day and all-time columns are nearly identical because 90 days is almost the whole window.

2,128 domains dropped Next.js while running Astro and 747 went the other way. Net, Next.js is down 1,381 domains to Astro, and that is the largest corridor anywhere in this category in either direction. Every other corridor runs toward Next.js: 1,029 in from Nuxt.js against 252 out, 499 in from Gatsby against 28 out, 76 in from Hugo against 24.

Two things keep that in proportion. 2,128 domains is 0.3% of the Next.js base, so this is a direction rather than a dent. And Next.js at 731,970 is still about 2.5 times Astro at 287,180. What the numbers support is a narrow claim: Next.js is consolidating the previous generation of React and Vue static generators while a smaller and faster flow moves to Astro. What they do not support is a reversal.

"Astro is the only technology in this category taking domains off Next.js, and it is taking them at nearly three to one. That is worth watching precisely because it is small. Corridors are how these shifts start." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO at TechnologyChecker.io

One more figure belongs here. 32,238 domains are recorded as previously running Next.js. That is counted from March 2026, not over the framework's lifetime, so it is roughly a five-month observation rather than a decade of churn.

Sales Signal: Astro's whole pitch is shipping less JavaScript by default, so the 2,128 domains that moved are a qualified list with a stated motivation. If you sell performance work, edge delivery or build tooling, that is the shortest path to a relevant first sentence.

6. Technology ecosystem

Two rows in the stack table need explaining before they mislead anyone.

React reads 29.68%. Next.js is built on React, so the correct interpretation is 100% and the 29.68% is the share where we also confirmed React through its own signature. It is a detection floor, not a usage rate, and I would rather publish the honest floor than quietly round it up.

Vercel Analytics at 9.37% is the row with real information in it. Vercel maintains Next.js and ships that analytics product on its own platform, so it is the clearest visible marker we have of the managed Vercel path rather than a self-managed one. It is a floor as well, because a Next.js site can run on Vercel with that product switched off. What it is not is a hosting share, and I would not let anyone quote it as one.

The rest is what a base that is 84% small companies would predict. Google Analytics at 48.33%, Cloudflare at 36.11%, Amazon CloudFront at 7.6%. WordPress at 3.11% and Shopify at 0.97% are small, but they are where Next.js is most likely rendering a front end over someone else's content or catalog.

Sales Signal: The 90.63% of resolved stacks with no Vercel Analytics are the widest opening for hosting, observability and edge products, with the caveat above attached: the absence of that tag is not proof of absence from Vercel. It is a starting list, not a qualified one.

7. What the reviews add

G2 reviewers rate ease of routing highest at 4 mentions, with ease of use at 3. The leading complaint, at 2 mentions, is difficult setup, and reviewers tie it specifically to deploying outside Vercel, alongside a challenging learning curve at 2 mentions. I would not read a hosting split out of that, and our detection cannot supply one either. What it does tell you is where the reported pain sits: not in writing Next.js, but in running it.

Key takeaways

1. Next.js is the category rather than a player in it. 731,970 domains, 66.6%, first of 26, close to twice the other 25 tools combined.

2. The share is an overstatement and we will say so. Next.js is easier for us to detect than anything below it, so its floor is tighter and the published gap is wider than the real one.

3. Astro is the one corridor running against it. 2,128 domains out against 747 in since March 2026, which is 0.3% of the base. A challenger, not a reversal.

4. The base is small companies and young companies. 84.35% at 50 staff or fewer, 76.27% founded since 2010. The enterprise names are single-property deployments on careers and documentation subdomains.

5. India is second by country. 33,991 domains, ahead of the UK, Brazil and Germany.

6. Read the level, not the slope. Our coverage of the web changed between 2025 and 2026 in both which domains we crawl and what we detect, so 731,970 is the reliable figure and the long-run curve is a trend.

Explore the full Next.js install base with company-level filtering at TechnologyChecker.io. Our dataset covers 731,970 active Next.js domains and 426,984 matched companies including industry, size, location and tech stack. Use the "Create Lead List" feature to build targeted prospect lists, or set up a Signal to track when companies start or stop using Next.js.