Updated

Technology · Web Development

Node.js

nodejs.org

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, Node.js enables developers to use JavaScript for server-side scripting, allowing for the development of scalable network applications. Its event-driven, non-blocking I/O model makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. Node.js has a vast ecosystem of open-source libraries available through npm (Node Package Manager), one of the largest software registries in the world. It's widely used for building web servers, command-line tools, and various types of applications, especially those requiring real-time features like chat applications, streaming services, and APIs.

Node.js belongs toProgramming languagescategory.

471websites

use it — 18.4% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months

#2of 9

tools in its category seen in our scans (we recognize 30)

124public pages

on UptimeCard — open any of them to see how that site is doing

Used on 18.4% of the websites we scan.

17.36% of all websites we track run Node.js▼ 0.01 points since 20 Sep

At a glance

UptimeCard's own scans and tests of 2,560 websites · refreshed weekly

How Node.js sites scoreout of 100 · hover or tap a score for details

43PerformancePooraverage site: 5089AccessibilityGoodaverage site: 8981Best practicesGoodaverage site: 9392SEOGoodaverage site: 92

Page load time

Loads about 19% slower than the average site

Node.js sites
5.1 s
All sites
4.3 s

Most Node.js sites load in 3.5–7.6 s. Home page weight: 3.5 MB vs 3.3 MB for all sites. 113 public sites measured.

Where are they hosted?

Mostly Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare

  • Amazon Web Services40%
  • Cloudflare23%
  • Fastly10%
  • Google Cloud6%
  • Other22%
United States 60%Canada 26%SE 2%

Who uses it?

Technology and Software is the biggest group

Technology and Software57%
Business Services15%
Educational Resources4%
Software as a Service (SaaS)4%

Share of 124 classified public sites. “× average” compares with all 961 public sites.

Browser-security check

41% of graded sites pass

15of 37 score B or better

Rates each site’s own security settings, not Node.js. 37 public sites graded so far.

How Node.js sites are built

Closest partners. The number says how many times more often the tool runs on Node.js sites than on an average website. Hover a partner for its share of sites.

Marko5×Qualified4×Next.js4×Emotion3×styled-components3×React3×Vercel2×Sentry2×

Stacks we see most. Tools that tend to run together with Node.js on the same websites. The percentage is the share of all 471 Node.js sites that run the whole stack.

11 stacks · swipe, drag or use the arrows
#1

Node.js + React + Next.js + Amazon CloudFront + AWS Certificate Manager

7.9%37 of 471 sites
#2

Node.js + Vue.js + Nuxt.js

7.2%34 of 471 sites
#3

Node.js + React + Next.js + OneTrust + Emotion

4.2%20 of 471 sites
#4

Node.js + React + Next.js + Sentry + Google Sign-in

2.8%13 of 471 sites
#5

Node.js + React + Marko + Turbopack

3.4%16 of 471 sites
#6

Node.js + Marko + Algolia

4.5%21 of 471 sites
#7

Node.js + OneTrust + Vue.js

3%14 of 471 sites
#8

Node.js + Marko + Contentful

2.8%13 of 471 sites
#9

Node.js + Marko + Vue.js

2.5%12 of 471 sites
#10

Node.js + Amazon CloudFront + Express

2.3%11 of 471 sites
#11

Node.js + OneTrust + Algolia

2.3%11 of 471 sites

Usually installed alongside

The bigger the bubble, the more of the 471 Node.js sites also run the tool. Colour shows what the tool does. Hover or tap a bubble for details.

Google Tag Manager60%Google Analytics56%Facebook Pixel22%Linkedin Insight Tag18%OneTrust24%Microsoft Advertising22%DoubleClick Floodlight12%Qualified14%
Tag managerAnalyticsCookie consentAdvertisingMarketing

Similar tools in its category

Programming languages: 30 tools known, 9 seen in our scans

PHP774 sitesAlternativeJava129 sitesAlternativeRuby27 sitesAlternativeScala4 sitesAlternativePerl1 sitesAlternativeErlang0 sitesAlternativeElixir0 sitesAlternativeC0 sitesAlternativePython82 sitesUsed togetherTypeScript72 sitesUsed togetherGraphQL42 sitesUsed together

How websites combine Node.js with other tools

Relationships found on the websites that use it, from the same map status pages show.

Built on a platform 73Needs another tool 49Complements another tool 18Integrates with another 10Overlaps with another 9

Websites using Node.js

471 websites use Node.js: 18.4% of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months. A selection is shown below.

Scores are out of 100: P Performance · A Accessibility · B Best practices · S SEO. Green 80+, yellow 65–79, orange 50–64, red below 50. The dot shows whether our last scan found the site failing (red) or not (green); Red, amber or blue: an active incident on the site's status page (outage, degraded, maintenance) or a failing scan; amber also means a certificate ending within 30 days. Hover the dot for details.

Questions about Node.js

How many websites use Node.js?
We found Node.js on 471 of the 2,560 websites we scanned in the last 12 months (18.4%). 124 of them have a public status page.
What is Node.js often used with?
Among the websites we scan, Node.js is often found alongside React (65.4% of its sites), Next.js (60.7% of its sites), Marko (31.6% of its sites).
What are the alternatives to Node.js?
Other programming languages tools we recognize include PHP, Java, Python, TypeScript.

Is your website built with Node.js?

UptimeCard checks it around the clock, tells you the minute it stops answering, and gives your visitors a status page.

Monitor my site freeCreate a status page