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ActiveX

7,851

companies run it, 0.01% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 12,409 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, <0.01%. A host is a website, not a company. This is a web standard: it is present on the host and does not count towards a stack.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

7,851 at Sept 26; 5,517 twelve months earlier, +2,334, +42.3% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart
MonthCompaniesObserved on the panel
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2022-0100
2022-0200
2022-0300
2022-0400
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2022-0800
2022-0900
2022-1000
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2023-0100
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2024-0100
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2024-08withheld0
2024-09withheld0
2024-10306
2024-114810
2024-126714
2025-01677146
2025-021,283276
2025-031,889406
2025-042,495537
2025-053,100667
2025-063,706797
2025-074,311927
2025-084,9171,058
2025-095,5171,187
2025-106,1061,313
2025-116,6921,440
2025-127,2751,565
2026-017,8581,690
2026-027,8581,690
2026-037,8621,691
2026-047,8601,691
2026-057,8581,690
2026-067,8571,690
2026-077,8551,690
2026-087,8531,689
2026-097,8511,689

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 7,851each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
0.01%
companies running anything in Web Standards and Capabilities
51,014,812
0.02%
companies running anything in Browser plugin runtimes
8,801
89.2%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, ActiveX is rank 1 of 2 technologies in Browser plugin runtimes.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

ActiveX is Microsoft’s browser plug-in and component technology used primarily by Internet Explorer.

ActiveX defines a component and plug-in model for Windows and Internet Explorer to run embedded controls in web pages and apps. It enabled rich interactions but is now largely deprecated and unsupported in modern browsers.

Kindstandard
VendorMicrosoft, microsoft.com
Slugactivex
Deploymentself-hosted
Open sourceno
First discovered2025-02-03
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10