JavaScript frameworks · comparison

Prototype vs Stimulus

Stimulus is used on 259,826 sites, 12 times as many as Prototype (21,042 sites).

In JavaScript frameworks, Prototype ranks #15 and Stimulus #2 by number of sites.

From Jul 2026 to Oct 2026, Prototype grew 0.1% and Stimulus grew 0.3%.

30 sites run both: 0.1% of Prototype sites and less than 0.1% of Stimulus sites.

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Prototype

www.prototypejs.org
Sites
21,042
Share of tracked sites
0.14%
Rank in JavaScript frameworks
#15
Change since Jul 2026
▲ +0.12%
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Stimulus

stimulusjs.org
Sites
259,826
Share of tracked sites
1.69%
Rank in JavaScript frameworks
#2
Change since Jul 2026
▲ +0.29%

Sites using both

30
sites run Prototype and Stimulus
of Prototype sites0.1%
of Stimulus sites<0.1%

Top sites using Prototype

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Often used with Prototype

Top sites using Stimulus

No ranked site yet.

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Often used with Stimulus

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Site counts and ranks come from our crawl of the web; the change compares the monthly adoption snapshots both technologies have.