Google User Content on new websites

Content delivery domain Google uses to serve user uploaded images from products such as Blogger, Photos and Drive.

Sites using Google User Content
5,436
since Apr 2026
Last 30 days
0.1%
of new sites, to Oct 18
no change on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
0.1%
of new sites, 7-day average
no change on the week before
Rank in Image CDN
#2
of 91 tools, all time
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website google.com

What we found

  1. Google User Content appeared on about 1,000 new sites in the last 30 days.[1]

Share of new sites using Google User Content

0.00% 0.02% 0.04% 0.06% 0.08% 10 Sep Oct Oct 15, 2026: Detection made stricter: a site now counts only when this technology loads on the page. Launches crawled before this date may overcount. [2]

The line is the 7-day average share of new sites that use Google User Content, since 10 September.

Who uses Google User Content

Kind of site 2,209 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
Productivity 271 12.3%
Education 252 11.4%
Health 213 9.6%
Marketing 194 8.8%
E-commerce 178 8.1%
Finance 177 8.0%
Content 161 7.3%
AI 144 6.5%
Developer Tools 134 6.1%
Social 129 5.8%
Games 116 5.3%
Hiring & HR 87 3.9%
Country[3] 959 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
India 214 22.3%
US 115 12.0%
France 102 10.6%
UK 73 7.6%
Canada 55 5.7%
South Korea 42 4.4%
Vietnam 31 3.2%
Brazil 30 3.1%
Australia 22 2.3%
Spain 18 1.9%
Poland 18 1.9%
Germany 16 1.7%
Domain ending 5,427 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 2,760 50.9%
.app 498 9.2%
.in 283 5.2%
.online 207 3.8%
.ai 175 3.2%
.io 143 2.6%
.site 134 2.5%
.net 123 2.3%
.org 107 2.0%
.fr 89 1.6%
.co 77 1.4%
.dev 76 1.4%
Green hosting[4] 672 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
Google User Content 38%
All new sites 47%

Image CDN on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category[5] Bar
1 ▲1 Cloudinary 0.1% 35.2%
2 ▼1 Google User Content 0.1% 32.0%
3 ▼1 Uploadcare <0.1% 7.0%
4 ▲1 ImageKit <0.1% 6.6%
5 ▲2 imgix <0.1% 3.9%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Image CDN tool. All 91 in Image CDN

Often used with Google User Content

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
Google Analytics 1,827 3.3x
Next.js 2,119 2.8x
Google Search Console 2,083 2.0x

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

Recently launched products built on Google User Content

Notes

  1. These figures cover websites that went live since April 2026, not the web as a whole.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 Google User Content when we detect Google User Content 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

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