Package · npm

ws

npm · v8.22.0 · MIT

Simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client and server for Node.js

Install

npm install ws

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
1.1B
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 1% on npm
Derived100th percentile within npm
Dependents
39.5K
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.91
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
13
189 versions over its life

Growth by period

Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of npm’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.

7 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
30 days
+0.6% · 30d
Derived+6.7M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
+17.6% · 90d
Derived+161.3M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+120.6% · 1y
Derived+589.1M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24

Adoption history

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 1,070,903,023 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 1,072,861,621 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 1,053,696,072 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 1,040,485,608 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 1,074,044,289 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 1,108,734,364 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 1,122,713,391 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 1,132,697,356 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 1,133,555,576 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 1,163,830,917 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 1,149,630,804 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 1,149,630,804 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 1,077,582,683 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 20261,077,582,68339,487
OCT 5, 20261,149,630,804Not observed
OCT 4, 20261,149,630,804Not observed
OCT 3, 20261,163,830,917Not observed
OCT 2, 20261,133,555,576Not observed
OCT 1, 20261,132,697,356Not observed
SEP 30, 20261,122,713,391Not observed
SEP 29, 20261,108,734,364Not observed
SEP 28, 20261,074,044,289Not observed
SEP 27, 20261,040,485,608Not observed
SEP 26, 20261,053,696,072Not observed
SEP 25, 20261,072,861,621Not observed
SEP 24, 20261,070,903,023Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v8.22.0
189 versions
First published
DEC 4, 2011
Last release
SEP 26, 2026
28d ago
Licence
MIT

Repository

In the Crest catalog

websockets/ws

Simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server for Node.js

Stars
22.8K
Forks
2.6K
Language
JavaScript
Last push
28d ago
Last release
28d ago

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Dependencies latest version · v8.22.0

Peer 2

  • bufferutil^4.0.1
  • utf-8-validate>=5.0.2

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