Lua

Category - Programming Languages

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Technology usage statistics

Websites using Lua 402,272 websites
Most popular in the country United States of America
Market position in Programming Languages #2
Market share in Programming Languages 7.78%

Technology adoption

Recent changes in Lua usage. (See Lua Usage Changes report)
Websites that added Lua +11,485
Websites that dropped Lua -86,435

Distribution by websites popularity

Lua detection in the top websites by popularity
Top 10k sites 224 websites
Top 100k sites 3,198 websites
Top 1m sites 26,169 websites

Websites utilizing Lua

Top websites that use Lua

Domain Country Rank Contacts
www.telegraph.co.uk United States of America 64
www.shutterstock.com United States of America 135
tumblr.com Canada 178
www.tumblr.com United States of America 178
static.wixstatic.com United States of America 248
www.yellowpages.com United States of America 361
See full domain list

Market Share

Lua market share within the Programming Languages category

Geographical Distribution

Technology usage distribution by websites across the globe.






Lua often used together with


Category - Web Servers.
OpenResty is used together with Lua on 408,670 domains. Total 402,272 domains found using OpenResty
Category - Web Servers.
Nginx is used together with Lua on 405,772 domains. Total 3,206,110 domains found using Nginx
Category - Document Encoding.
UTF-8 is used together with Lua on 361,300 domains. Total 8,702,930 domains found using UTF-8
Category - Document Standards.
JavaScript is used together with Lua on 233,531 domains. Total 6,622,159 domains found using JavaScript
Category - Mobile.
Viewport Meta is used together with Lua on 190,600 domains. Total 4,818,971 domains found using Viewport Meta
Category - Document Standards.
X-UA-Compatible is used together with Lua on 124,792 domains. Total 2,326,529 domains found using X-UA-Compatible


Alternative Technologies


CFML: Total 2,324 domains found using CFML
Elm: Total 51 domains found using Elm
Erlang: Total 16,462 domains found using Erlang
Go: Total 16,060 domains found using Go
Java: Total 242,473 domains found using Java
Node.js: Total 58,216 domains found using Node.js
Perl: Total 15,908 domains found using Perl
PHP: Total 3,965,788 domains found using PHP
Python: Total 170,107 domains found using Python
Ruby: Total 276,776 domains found using Ruby