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Lua

7,760

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

Hosts: 473,693 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.25%. 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

7,760 at Sept 26; 7,680 twelve months earlier, +80, +1.0% 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
2021-016,3364,579
2021-026,3384,580
2021-036,3394,581
2021-046,3394,581
2021-056,3404,582
2021-066,3414,583
2021-076,3414,583
2021-086,3434,584
2021-096,3444,585
2021-106,3464,586
2021-116,3464,586
2021-126,3474,587
2022-016,3484,588
2022-026,3494,588
2022-036,3494,588
2022-046,3504,589
2022-056,3504,589
2022-066,3514,590
2022-076,3514,590
2022-086,3524,590
2022-096,3524,590
2022-106,3524,590
2022-116,3524,590
2022-126,3524,590
2023-016,3534,591
2023-026,3534,591
2023-036,3534,591
2023-046,3584,595
2023-056,3604,596
2023-066,3624,598
2023-076,3644,599
2023-086,3664,601
2023-096,3684,602
2023-106,3714,604
2023-116,3734,606
2023-126,3754,607
2024-016,3774,609
2024-026,3794,610
2024-036,3824,612
2024-046,3854,614
2024-056,3834,613
2024-066,3844,614
2024-076,3844,614
2024-086,3854,614
2024-096,3874,616
2024-106,5004,697
2024-116,6094,776
2024-126,7164,854
2025-016,8244,932
2025-026,9325,010
2025-037,0405,088
2025-047,1465,164
2025-057,2535,242
2025-067,3615,320
2025-077,4685,397
2025-087,5755,474
2025-097,6805,550
2025-107,7845,625
2025-117,7775,620
2025-127,7745,618
2026-017,7735,617
2026-027,7715,616
2026-037,7705,615
2026-047,7695,615
2026-057,7685,614
2026-067,7675,613
2026-077,7655,612
2026-087,7635,610
2026-097,7605,608

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 7,760each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
0.01%
companies running anything in Programming Languages and Runtimes
36,337,962
0.02%
companies running anything in Server-side programming languages
33,309,133
0.02%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Lua is rank 11 of 24 technologies in Server-side programming languages.

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7,760 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

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

Lua is a lightweight scripting language and runtime.

Lua is a lightweight, embeddable scripting language and runtime developed by the Lua team at PUC-Rio. It is often embedded into applications and games to provide extensibility via scripts.

Kindproduct
VendorPUC-Rio Lua Team, lua.org
Sluglua
Deploymentself-hosted
Pricingfree
Open sourceyes
First discovered2019-10-04
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10