GitHub Pages on new websites

Free static site hosting served straight from a GitHub repository.

Sites using GitHub Pages
116,147
since Apr 2026
Last 30 days
1.9%
of new sites, to Oct 18
+0.1 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
1.9%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Hosting
#4
of 4770 tools, all time
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website pages.github.com

What we found

  1. About 1 in 55 websites that went live in the last 30 days use GitHub Pages (1.9%).[1]
  2. Almost all new GitHub Pages sites also use Fastly.
  3. It is unusually common on .dev domains: 5.3% of the domains running it, against 1.4% of domains across new sites.

Share of new sites using GitHub Pages

0% 1% 2% 3% 10 Sep Oct

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use GitHub Pages, since 10 September.

Who uses GitHub Pages

Kind of site 41,256 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
Developer Tools 7,054 17.1%
Education 5,278 12.8%
Health 4,237 10.3%
Games 3,746 9.1%
Productivity 3,660 8.9%
AI 3,072 7.5%
Finance 2,930 7.1%
Content 2,729 6.6%
E-commerce 2,369 5.7%
Marketing 1,758 4.3%
Design 1,551 3.8%
Social 1,458 3.5%
Country[2] 16,658 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
India 4,103 24.6%
UK 2,245 13.5%
France 1,849 11.1%
US 1,607 9.7%
Canada 1,433 8.6%
South Korea 856 5.1%
Japan 621 3.7%
Sweden 420 2.5%
Brazil 399 2.4%
Switzerland 372 2.2%
Australia 276 1.7%
Germany 206 1.2%
Domain ending 116,186 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 55,058 47.4%
.me 6,365 5.5%
.dev 5,963 5.1%
.org 5,352 4.6%
.app 5,209 4.5%
.in 4,579 3.9%
.online 4,443 3.8%
.io 3,866 3.3%
.site 2,846 2.5%
.xyz 2,467 2.1%
.uk 2,424 2.1%
.net 1,904 1.6%
Green hosting[3] 4,834 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
GitHub Pages 11%
All new sites 47%

Hosting on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[4] Bar
1 – Vercel 13.1% 32.7%
2 – Hostinger 8.6% 21.5%
3 – Netlify 4.8% 12.0%
4 ▼1 GitHub Pages 1.9% 4.8%
5 ▲1 IONOS 1.8% 4.5%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Hosting tool. The most common alternatives to GitHub Pages on new websites are Vercel and Hostinger. All 4770 in Hosting

Often used with GitHub Pages

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
Fastly 115,747 36x
Namecheap Email Forwarding 20,662 3.0x
Namecheap DNS 22,347 2.7x

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

Recently launched products built on GitHub Pages

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Some products people expect to see here are filed under a related category: CDN.

How this page is made

FirstSited looks at each new website near the day it goes live and records what it was built with. We do not go back later, so these figures describe what sites launch with, not what they run today. A site counts towards GitHub Pages when we detect GitHub Pages on it at that look.

Every share on this page is a proportion of the new sites we were tracking at the time. Sites we found across the wider web count towards the figures, but only product launches are listed by name. How we detect technologies · How we find new sites

Something not look right? If a technology shown here is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] and we'll review it.