🆚 Next.js vs. Unicorn

📈 Next.js is much more popular than Unicorn.
🌍 Next.js is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Type

Frontend framework

About

Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications that offers server-side rendering, static site generation, file-based routing, and built-in API routes.

It also supports incremental static regeneration (ISR) to update static pages without full rebuilds, automatic image optimization, fast refresh during development, and built-in TypeScript support.

Unicorn is a reactive component framework for Django that adds rich front-end interactions.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

New Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Website

nextjs.org #64,544

django-unicorn.com #459,166

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Next.js frontend framework is 12,932 times more popular than Unicorn.

Total websites

Market share

Frontend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Next.js is more popular than Unicorn in all countries.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Germany

Brazil

France

Netherlands

Japan

Russia

Australia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Finland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Iceland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Estonia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Isle of Man in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Next.js is more popular than Unicorn in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Internet Services

Travel

Entertainment

Education/Reference

General News

Finance/Banking

Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#16

#23

#47

#56

#61

Name

Rank

#2,325

#459,166

#584,467

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🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.