API KEY for Google Maps on new websites

1. API KEY for Google Maps appeared on about 23 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. Half of new API KEY for Google Maps sites also use Contact Form 7.

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use API KEY for Google Maps, day by day for the last 90 days and weekly before that (left of the dashed line). It starts at our first detection. The shaded areas were measured against a different set of sites, so the line can step there without API KEY for Google Maps itself changing.^[2][3]

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category[5]	Bar
1	–	Elementor	5.1%	52.0%
2	▲1	Contact Form 7	1.9%	19.4%
3	▼1	Elementor Pro	1.9%	19.3%
4	▲1	Yoast	1.7%	17.1%
5	▼1	Site Kit by Google	1.5%	15.2%
…
448	▼1	API KEY for Google Maps	<0.1%	<0.1%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Wordpress Plugin tool. API KEY for Google Maps is typically used alongside Elementor rather than instead of it. All 1954 in Wordpress Plugin

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
Contact Form 7	38	27x
Font Awesome	37	7.5x
jQuery	71	6.8x
Google Fonts	59	2.0x

Tools that turn up far more often on API KEY for Google Maps sites than on new sites in general, and how many times as common each one is there.

1 of the 74 sites using API KEY for Google Maps are product launches we list individually. The other 73 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one. They are included in the StackScope API and in Stackdar alerts.

Site	Found	Also detected
CMR University cmr.edu.in · Education · India	Jul 15

The StackScope API serves all 74 sites using API KEY for Google Maps, filterable and exportable, from £15 a month.

1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
2. Grey: before 8 July 2026, we only tracked launches from launch platforms. From that date we crawl the wider web as well, so the share is measured against a much larger set of sites. For one continuous measure, view launch platforms only.
3. Amber: 8 July to 10 September 2026, before we improved our infrastructure to index new sites much sooner, often on the day they go live. Sites found that early often haven't finished setting up, so anything usually added after launch reads lower from 10 September. We record each site as it was when we found it.
4. Country comes from what each site says about itself, such as a company registration, legal terms or a phone number, not just its domain ending. Too few sites state their country plainly for the usual count, so this one also counts single signals: a country domain ending, a phone number (for North America, its area code), a location the site declares in its own page metadata, or a country-specific vendor stack and the page language where they agree and nothing contradicts them. Read these as likely rather than certain.
5. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: Wordpress Theme.