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SWFObject

152,514

companies run it, 0.28% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 427,771 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.22%. 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

152,513 at Sept 26; 172,932 twelve months earlier, -20,419, -11.8% 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
2021-01196,17250,650
2021-02196,17450,650
2021-03196,17550,650
2021-04196,17650,651
2021-05196,17750,651
2021-06196,17850,651
2021-07196,17950,651
2021-08196,20750,659
2021-09196,21950,662
2021-10196,22850,664
2021-11196,23850,667
2021-12196,24650,669
2022-01196,24950,669
2022-02196,25350,671
2022-03196,25850,672
2022-04196,26350,673
2022-05196,26850,674
2022-06196,27550,676
2022-07196,28150,678
2022-08196,28650,679
2022-09196,26850,674
2022-10196,26450,673
2022-11196,26350,673
2022-12196,25950,672
2023-01196,25850,672
2023-02196,25950,672
2023-03196,26050,672
2023-04197,25550,929
2023-05195,88350,575
2023-06194,51150,221
2023-07193,13749,866
2023-08191,76449,511
2023-09190,39149,157
2023-10189,01648,802
2023-11187,64348,447
2023-12186,27048,093
2024-01184,89747,739
2024-02183,52447,384
2024-03182,54147,130
2024-04180,89946,706
2024-05178,26246,025
2024-06177,99645,957
2024-07177,72745,887
2024-08177,47445,822
2024-09177,49245,827
2024-10177,73145,888
2024-11177,77745,900
2024-12177,66245,870
2025-01177,78545,902
2025-02177,50845,831
2025-03177,23045,759
2025-04176,60145,597
2025-05176,21845,498
2025-06175,88345,411
2025-07175,34245,271
2025-08174,70445,107
2025-09172,93244,649
2025-10170,88044,119
2025-11168,60643,532
2025-12166,52542,995
2026-01164,61242,501
2026-02162,57641,975
2026-03160,97941,563
2026-04159,82641,265
2026-05158,41940,902
2026-06157,26940,605
2026-07155,79340,224
2026-08154,27839,833
2026-09152,51339,377

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 152,514each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
0.28%
companies running anything in JavaScript Libraries
40,118,208
0.38%
companies running anything in UI components and widgets
20,523,207
0.74%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, SWFObject is rank 29 of 116 technologies in UI components and widgets.

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Catalogue record

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

JavaScript utility for Flash detection and embedding SWF files.

SWFObject is an open-source JS library that detects Adobe Flash Player and embeds SWF content into web pages. It was widely used by developers to handle Flash compatibility.

Kindlibrary
Slugswfobject
Deploymentself-hosted
Pricingfree
Open sourceyes
First discovered2019-06-03
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10