Technology answer

Babel

821,186

companies run it, 1.5% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 4,568,271 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 2.4%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

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

821,181 at Sept 26; 940,035 twelve months earlier, -118,854, -12.6% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

The 69 numbers in this chart

Month	Companies	Observed on the panel
2021-01	446,316	74,413
2021-02	446,317	74,414
2021-03	446,317	74,414
2021-04	446,318	74,414
2021-05	446,318	74,414
2021-06	446,317	74,414
2021-07	446,320	74,414
2021-08	446,367	74,422
2021-09	446,404	74,428
2021-10	446,439	74,434
2021-11	446,474	74,440
2021-12	446,518	74,447
2022-01	446,559	74,454
2022-02	446,600	74,461
2022-03	446,643	74,468
2022-04	446,686	74,475
2022-05	446,729	74,482
2022-06	446,773	74,490
2022-07	446,817	74,497
2022-08	446,858	74,504
2022-09	446,857	74,504
2022-10	446,865	74,505
2022-11	446,875	74,507
2022-12	446,884	74,508
2023-01	446,884	74,508
2023-02	446,888	74,509
2023-03	446,891	74,509
2023-04	480,615	80,132
2023-05	498,534	83,120
2023-06	516,453	86,107
2023-07	534,371	89,095
2023-08	552,290	92,082
2023-09	570,208	95,070
2023-10	588,125	98,057
2023-11	606,043	101,044
2023-12	623,960	104,032
2024-01	641,878	107,019
2024-02	659,815	110,010
2024-03	688,712	114,828
2024-04	714,946	119,202
2024-05	707,457	117,953
2024-06	715,897	119,360
2024-07	724,307	120,762
2024-08	733,286	122,259
2024-09	749,381	124,943
2024-10	772,601	128,814
2024-11	794,839	132,522
2024-12	815,568	135,978
2025-01	839,185	139,916
2025-02	859,991	143,385
2025-03	880,777	146,850
2025-04	891,488	148,636
2025-05	903,098	150,572
2025-06	915,935	152,712
2025-07	927,595	154,656
2025-08	939,036	156,564
2025-09	940,035	156,730
2025-10	933,875	155,703
2025-11	920,590	153,488
2025-12	908,287	151,437
2026-01	897,590	149,654
2026-02	886,543	147,812
2026-03	879,466	146,632
2026-04	873,564	145,648
2026-05	865,542	144,310
2026-06	858,209	143,088
2026-07	847,474	141,298
2026-08	835,768	139,346
2026-09	821,181	136,914

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 821,186each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator

Companies

Share

companies in the index

54,527,857

1.5%

companies running anything in Build and Developer Tools

4,301,113

19.1%

companies running anything in Frontend bundlers and transpilers

3,431,018

23.9%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Babel is rank 2 of 12 technologies in Frontend bundlers and transpilers.

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Catalogue record

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

An open-source JavaScript transpiler that converts modern JS into broadly compatible code.

Babel is a build-time tool and library that transpiles modern JavaScript and JSX syntax into code compatible with older environments. It is maintained by the Babel Project and widely used by web developers in build pipelines.

Kindlibrary

VendorBabel Project, babeljs.io

PathWeb Engineering > Build and Developer Tools > Frontend bundlers and transpilers

Slugbabel

Deploymentself-hosted

Pricingfree

Open sourceyes

First discovered2019-10-04

Last discovered2026-09-10

Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10

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Subcategory answerFrontend bundlers and transpilersCompanies running anything in Frontend bundlers and transpilers, 3,431,018 of 54,527,857 in the index, and the technologies ranked in it.Category answerBuild and Developer ToolsThe category above this one, with its subcategories and the companies in each.CatalogueAll 8,177 technologiesRanked by the companies running them, with the publication gate named and the long tail drawn.