Next.js leads our crawl of 10,242 software websites
Originally published on directree Research . Data as of 15 September 2026. We detected Next.js on 3,863 public homepages in directree's September 2026 dataset. That is 76.3% of the 5,060 websites where our scanner identified at least one framework, and 37.7% of all 10,242 websites with a recorded stack check. We found Next.js on more than half of the checked websites in both the AI Image & Video…
The research conducted by directree in September 2026 found that Next.js was present on 3,863 of the 5,060 websites analyzed, representing 76.3% of the sites with at least one identified framework. This made Next.js the most commonly detected framework, with React (including directly detected instances) and Laravel being the second and third most prevalent frameworks at 16.4% and 4.6% respectively.
Next.js was also identified on more than half of the websites in the AI Image & Video Generation and Video & Audio categories, and across the full sample, it was found on roughly half of the websites.
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