All modern frameworks combined at 10M: 5.0% of detected sites (Source: WebPulse Common Crawl scan, 10M+ detections. Next.js + Nuxt + Astro + SvelteKit + React + Vue + Gatsby + Hugo + Remix + HTMX. Down from 6.4% at 6.28M.)
The Number Got Worse
We published this story at 6.28M detections as 'The 6% Reality.' At 10 million detections, it's now the 5% Reality. The entire conversation about modern web frameworks — every conference talk, every comparison article, every 'what to learn in 2026' guide — is about 5% of the detected web. The other 95% isn't listening, isn't migrating, and isn't represented in the conversation.
Why 5% Isn't Failure — It's Concentration
Five percent sounds small until you understand what it represents. Web crawlers count every domain equally — an abandoned 2014 WordPress blog counts the same as Canva, which handles a billion monthly visits on React. The 95% is dominated by the long tail of the internet: local business brochures, restaurant menus, simple storefronts. They don't need component lifecycles or client-side state management. They run fine on WordPress.
Filter for the top 10,000 highest-traffic sites and modern frameworks dominate. Our own Tranco data confirms this: 51.5% modern among top sites. The 5% owns the space where the digital economy actually lives — where the engineering budgets are spent and where the products people use daily are built.
The One Domain = One Vote Problem
Our detection treats every domain equally. An enterprise React app serving millions of users counts as one site. A completely abandoned blog running a 2014 WordPress install also counts as one. Many companies run WordPress on company.com for marketing but build their actual product on app.company.com — which our scanner often can't reach. The 5% is a floor, not a ceiling.
What This Actually Means
The 5% reality isn't an argument for or against modern frameworks. It's a map of the terrain. If you're building an interactive cloud platform, React and Next.js are the undisputed choice — and the 5% is exactly where that work happens. If you're building content sites and storefronts, the 95% runs on tools optimized for exactly that: simple, cheap, fast for SEO. The deeper we scan, the more legacy we find — because the long tail of the web is almost entirely WordPress and Joomla.
