How many companies use Handlebars?

TechLeads currently detects Handlebars on 250,908 websites. HTTP Archive's monthly crawl, a separate dataset, detected it on 437,952 pages in September 2026.

Who are Handlebars's biggest competitors?

By number of websites, the largest JavaScript frameworks technologies besides Handlebars are React (3,909,805), GSAP (2,253,655), Vue.js (1,900,274), Next.js (1,032,904), RequireJS (796,918).

Which companies use Handlebars?

Websites using Handlebars include moz.com, challonge.com, themeforest.net, south-ayrshire.gov.uk, wattpad.com, fanmtl.com. The full list of 250,908 websites can be exported as a CSV for $29.

Handlebars market share and customers

As of October 8, 2026, Handlebars is used by 250,908 websites in the TechLeads index: 1.5% of all JavaScript frameworks detections, the 18th most-used of 79 JavaScript frameworks technologies.

250,908

websites using Handlebars

1.5%

share of JavaScript frameworks

#18

of 79 in JavaScript frameworks

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Handlebars vs competitors in JavaScript frameworks

Websites using each technology in the TechLeads index, and its share of all JavaScript frameworks detections.

#	Technology	Websites	Share
1	React	3,909,805	23.0%
2	GSAP	2,253,655	13.2%
3	Vue.js	1,900,274	11.2%
4	Next.js	1,032,904	6.1%
5	RequireJS	796,918	4.7%
6	WOW	693,733	4.1%
7	styled-components	473,172

Handlebars usage over time

In HTTP Archive's monthly crawl of public websites, Handlebars was detected on 437,952 pages in September 2026, down 20.1% from a year earlier (peak: 787,317). Among the 1,000 most-visited sites, it appeared on 16. HTTP Archive is a separate dataset from the TechLeads index, so its numbers are not added to ours.

Same month, other JavaScript Frameworks technologies in HTTP Archive: React 7,210,181, GSAP 4,697,200, Vue.js 2,655,312, Next.js 2,090,368, Next.js App Router 1,514,274.

Handlebars customers by country

Based on country-code domains (such as .de or .co.uk); websites on .com and other generic domains are not assigned a country.

US1,095
GB459
IT263
DE231
FR193
AU159
CA107
ES80
PT61
CO49

Companies using Handlebars

moz.com
challonge.com
themeforest.net
south-ayrshire.gov.uk · South Ayrshire Council
wattpad.com
fanmtl.com
wetter.com · wetter.com
ilmeteo.it
codecanyon.net
ultimatesurvivaltips.com · Ultimate Survival Tips
elifesciences.org
untappd.com

See all 250,908 websites using Handlebars or download the full list as a CSV for $29.

How these numbers are calculated

TechLeads scans public websites and detects Handlebars from signals in the page HTML, scripts, cookies, HTTP headers and DNS records. Market share is Handlebars's website count divided by the website counts of all JavaScript frameworks technologies we track; a site using two JavaScript frameworks tools counts for both. Counts were last refreshed on October 8, 2026 and update daily.

FAQ

Handlebars accounts for 1.5% of JavaScript frameworks detections in the TechLeads index (250,908 websites), which makes it the 18th most-used of 79 JavaScript frameworks technologies we track.