The Numbers at Scale
At 500K scale, every modern framework that's ever been discussed on Hacker News, every framework that's been the subject of a conference talk, every framework recommended in a 'what to learn in 2026' article — all of them together account for 6% of the web. WordPress alone is 73%.
The Tipping Point Is Only at the Top
Our Tranco top-10K data showed 51.5% modern — the tipping point. But that's the top 10,000 sites. Expand to the full web and the picture inverts completely. The tipping point exists only among the elite. The web that most people actually build and use is overwhelmingly legacy.
What This Means for 'The Future of the Web'
Every article about 'the future of web frameworks' is written from inside the 6%. The other 94% isn't reading those articles, isn't attending those conferences, and isn't migrating. The gap between what the tech industry discusses and what the web actually runs has never been wider.
