Geolocation Tools

1. ipapi leads, on 50% of the sites using a geolocation tool, 3.2 times as many sites as IPWho.
2. Only 10 of the 44 geolocation tools we track run on more than 1% of these sites.
3. Among sites launched in September, ipstack rose to #8 from #22 in August.

#	Movement	Tool	Country	Share	Bar	Sites	90 days
1	–	ipapi IP geolocation API used to look up country, city, and ISP details from a visitor's IP.		50%		1,166
2	▼1	IPWho Free IP geolocation API: no auth required		15%		363
3	▼1	I IPinfo IP geolocation and intelligence API		13%		302
4	▼1	IP-API IP geolocation lookup API providing country, city, ISP, and ASN data.		11%		256
5	▲3	Radar Location data platform providing geofencing, maps, and address autocomplete APIs.		7.9%		186
6	▼1	C country.is Free IP geolocation API returning visitor country code		4.3%		102
7	▼1	FreeIPAPI IP address geolocation API.		2.6%		61
8	▼5	G GeoJS Free IP geolocation, country lookup, and JSONP API service.		2.0%		47
9	▲3	LocationIQ Geocoding, reverse geocoding, and maps API.		1.6%		37
10	▼1	MaxMind GeoIP geolocation and online fraud detection data provider.		1.4%		32

Share is of the 2,355 sites using a geolocation tool; a site can use more than one. Arrows compare each tool's rank among sites launched in September with August. The line is its share of new sites over 90 days. Showing the top 10 of 44.

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