bower
The browser package manager
npm says
422,181
per week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
real installs
high confidence≈ 421K–422K
per week
best guess 422K
Mirror spikes and crawlers removed. CI and dependency installs still count, so this is not a head count.
About 0% of npm's count looks like noise. noise real installs
Why this estimate
With JavaScript on, this lists what the filter found for this package.
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 6, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people use bower?
npm counted 422,181 downloads of bower in the last 7 days. Nobody can count people exactly, npm included: it does not record who downloaded what. After removing mirror spikes and crawlers, about 421K–422K look like real installs. Noise is under 1% of npm's count. What remains still includes CI and installs as a dependency of other packages.
Is bower still maintained?
Probably not actively: there has been no release in over a year, though that can also mean it is simply finished. The latest version, 1.8.14, came out on Mar 14, 2022. There were no stable releases in the last 12 months. It was first published on Sep 4, 2012. npm lists 2 maintainers.
Is bower still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 22% over 3 months and up 48% over 11 months. For scale, the median of the 269 packages we track, which lean towards today's most downloaded, is up 157% over 11 months, so this one is behind that. Last week, 99% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 1, the latest one; the most used single version was 1.8.14, with 59%. Weekdays get 1.7× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 990 downloads a week, roughly 10 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with a confidence level. It still includes CI and dependency installs, so it is not a count of people.