Pexels on new websites

1. Pexels appeared on about 1,800 new sites in the last 30 days.^[1]
2. It is the third most common API technology on new sites. Wikimedia appears on about 3 times as many.
3. Half of new Pexels sites also use Google Tag Manager.
4. It is unusually common on .pro domains: 3% of the domains running it, against 0.31% of domains across new sites.

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

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category	Bar
1	–	Wikimedia	0.3%	34.4%
2	–	Google APIs	0.3%	33.4%
3	–	Pexels	0.1%	11.2%
4	▼1	FlagCDN	<0.1%	3.1%
5	▼1	Simple Icons	<0.1%	2.7%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any API tool. All 185 in API

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
GIPHY	1,808	842x
Telegram	1,799	205x
Facebook	1,943	65x
Gravatar	1,809	50x
Jetpack	1,814	46x

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

697 of the 4,965 sites using Pexels are product launches we list individually. The other 4,268 are sites we found crawling the wider web: they count towards the figures above, but we do not publish them one by one.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
UniEco Ghana — Connecting Students, Businesses & Opportunities. uniecoghana.com · Ghana	Oct 17
AthleteFlux - Planificación multideporte para coaches athleteflux.com · Health	Oct 17
TravelBlubble travelblubble.com	Oct 17
VisioFlux — Create beyond limits visiofluxai.com	Oct 17
Kaleidal Mapper — projection mapping in your browser kaleidal.app	Oct 16
BolCaps: Free Animated Captions for Reels, TikTok and Shorts (Urdu, Hindi, English) bolcaps.com · Content	Oct 16
Squish squish.co · Developer Tools · United States	Oct 16
Passerelle Canada : s'installer, travailler, entreprendre et voyager au Canada francecanada.ca · Canada	Oct 15
Dashfixe — vetted local artisans in Amora & Seixal dashfixe.com	Oct 15
HealthIsOptimal | Cloud-Based Healthcare Network healthisoptimal.com · Health	Oct 15
WerkMatch – Die passende Hilfe für jedes Projekt werkmatch.ch · Switzerland	Oct 15
Openbooth · A booth of your own online lots-of-lev.com	Oct 15

Showing the most recent 12 of 697.

The StackScope API serves all 4,965 sites using Pexels, 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. 15 October 2026: Detection made stricter: a site now counts only when this technology loads on the page. Launches crawled before this date may overcount. The dashed line on the chart marks the day.
5. 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.
6. Green hosting is the share whose web host The Green Web Foundation lists as running on green energy, among sites checked since 1 April 2026, against the same share for every new site we checked over that time. Data from The Green Web Foundation.