Top-level domain · 159 sites
What are websites on .edu domains (US higher education) built with?
As of 2026-10-02, we read the home pages of 159 websites on .edu domains (US higher education) among our popular sample: the most used CMS is Drupal (33%), the most used framework is Alpine.js (4.4%) and the most used CDN or host is cdnjs (25%).
Most used technologies
| Technology | Category | Sites | Share | vs all sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Tag Manager | Tag manager | 138 | 87% | 2.1x |
| PHP | Programming language | 91 | 57% | 2.5x |
| jQuery | JavaScript library | 84 | 53% | 1.8x |
| Nginx | Web server | 54 | 34% | 1.5x |
| Drupal | CMS | 53 | 33% | 7.4x |
| Font Awesome | Fonts | 52 | 33% | 3.3x |
| Google Fonts | Fonts | 52 | 33% | 1.9x |
| Apache HTTP Server | Web server | 46 | 29% | 3.3x |
| Adobe Fonts | Fonts | 39 | 25% | 7.2x |
| cdnjs | CDN | 39 | 25% | 3.1x |
| WordPress | CMS | 33 | 21% | 1.3x |
| YouTube | Video | 30 | 19% | 4.5x |
| Bootstrap | UI library | 29 | 18% | 2.0x |
| Google Analytics | Analytics | 29 | 18% | 0.9x |
| jQuery Migrate | JavaScript library | 21 | 13% | 1.9x |
| jsDelivr | CDN | 21 | 13% | 1.7x |
| Cloudflare | CDN | 19 | 12% | 0.4x |
| Slick | JavaScript library | 15 | 9.4% | 2.2x |
| Yoast SEO | SEO | 15 | 9.4% | 1.3x |
| Google Hosted Libraries | CDN | 14 | 8.8% | 1.9x |
| New Relic | Monitoring | 14 | 8.8% | 3.5x |
| Modernizr | JavaScript library | 13 | 8.2% | 3.6x |
| Tailwind CSS | UI library | 11 | 6.9% | 0.5x |
| unpkg | CDN | 11 | 6.9% | 2.6x |
| Swiper | JavaScript library | 10 | 6.3% | 0.9x |
"vs all sites" compares the share here with the share among all 7,859 sites: 2.0x means twice as common.
Over-represented here
Technologies much more common on websites on .edu domains (US higher education) than on average (at least 5 sites):
| Technology | Sites | Share | vs all sites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crazy Egg | 6 | 3.8% | 11.0x |
| Foundation | 5 | 3.1% | 8.8x |
| Drupal | 53 | 33% | 7.4x |
| Adobe Fonts | 39 | 25% | 7.2x |
| Vimeo | 9 | 5.7% | 4.6x |
| YouTube | 30 | 19% | 4.5x |
| Modernizr | 13 | 8.2% | 3.6x |
| New Relic | 14 | 8.8% | 3.5x |
| Moment.js | 5 | 3.1% | 3.4x |
| AOS | 5 | 3.1% | 3.4x |
Most popular websites on .edu domains (US higher education)
- mit.edu #98
- harvard.edu #133
- stanford.edu #169
- cornell.edu #257
- washington.edu #415
- yale.edu #533
- upenn.edu #550
- psu.edu #606
- ucla.edu #649
- wisc.edu #706
- uci.edu #752
- cmu.edu #847
- ucsd.edu #902
- uchicago.edu #906
- utexas.edu #911
- asu.edu #1,081
- ufl.edu #1,084
- duke.edu #1,136
- uiuc.edu #1,140
- purdue.edu #1,146
- nyu.edu #1,168
- unc.edu #1,174
- umd.edu #1,208
- usc.edu #1,251
- arizona.edu #1,301
- illinois.edu #1,313
- colorado.edu #1,337
- northwestern.edu #1,376
- virginia.edu #1,452
- utah.edu #1,474
- tamu.edu #1,504
- osu.edu #1,530
- bu.edu #1,567
- ucsb.edu #1,584
- ncsu.edu #1,624
- rutgers.edu #1,653
- pitt.edu #1,670
- vt.edu #1,713
- brookings.edu #1,734
- indiana.edu #1,809
- georgetown.edu #1,829
- cuny.edu #1,841
- hawaii.edu #1,869
- wustl.edu #1,870
- tufts.edu #1,911
- gatech.edu #1,960
- uga.edu #1,997
- fsu.edu #2,021
- unl.edu #2,023
- brown.edu #2,029
- iastate.edu #2,038
- hbs.edu #2,050
- rochester.edu #2,065
- oregonstate.edu #2,092
- uiowa.edu #2,148
- iu.edu #2,303
- usf.edu #2,361
- udel.edu #2,425
- uoregon.edu #2,463
- vanderbilt.edu #2,474
- nd.edu #2,590
- wsu.edu #2,594
- colostate.edu #2,636
- byu.edu #2,661
- gmu.edu #2,712
- buffalo.edu #2,865
- clemson.edu #2,899
- uky.edu #2,915
- uw.edu #2,938
- dartmouth.edu #2,960
- ucr.edu #2,973
- emory.edu #2,976
- miami.edu #3,081
- uh.edu #3,127
- lsu.edu #3,155
- missouri.edu #3,169
- uconn.edu #3,201
- ku.edu #3,540
- utk.edu #3,608
- unm.edu #3,638
- rit.edu #3,792
- gsu.edu #3,910
- ucar.edu #3,958
- fiu.edu #3,971
- unh.edu #4,156
- wvu.edu #4,271
- northeastern.edu #4,292
- syr.edu #4,323
- bc.edu #4,340
- ou.edu #4,581
- unt.edu #4,841
- temple.edu #4,935
- rpi.edu #5,008
- ucf.edu #5,080
- uvm.edu #5,097
- nap.edu #5,303
- case.edu #5,559
- umbc.edu #5,938
- umt.edu #6,163
- sc.edu #6,384
The 100 most popular of 159 are listed; the number is the position in our popularity-ordered sample (1 = most popular).
FAQ
- What are websites on .edu domains (US higher education) built with?
- As of 2026-10-02, we read the home pages of 159 websites on .edu domains (US higher education) among our popular sample: the most used CMS is Drupal (33%), the most used framework is Alpine.js (4.4%) and the most used CDN or host is cdnjs (25%).
- Which technologies are most common on websites on .edu domains (US higher education)?
- Google Tag Manager (87%), PHP (57%), jQuery (53%), Nginx (34%), Drupal (33%) and Font Awesome (33%) (share of the 159 sites analysed on 2026-10-02).
- What is typical for websites on .edu domains (US higher education) compared with all sites?
- Crazy Egg (11.0x as common as on average), Foundation (8.8x as common as on average), Drupal (7.4x as common as on average) and Adobe Fonts (7.2x as common as on average).
- Does .edu mean the site is hosted in that country?
- No. A top-level domain says how the name is registered, not where the server is. The technologies are detected from the home page, wherever it is hosted.