Pexels on new websites

1. Pexels appeared on about 1,700 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, since 10 September.

#	Movement	Tool	Share of all sites	Share of category	Bar
1	–	Wikimedia	0.3%	34.4%
2	–	Google APIs	0.3%	33.5%
3	–	Pexels	0.1%	11.1%
4	▼1	FlagCDN	<0.1%	3.0%
5	▼1	Simple Icons	<0.1%	2.6%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any API tool. All 187 in API

Tool	Sites with both	vs all new sites	Bar
GIPHY	1,873	851x
Telegram	1,864	207x
Facebook	2,012	66x
WordPress.com DNS	1,827	66x
Gravatar	1,875	51x

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.

708 of the 5,055 sites using Pexels are product launches we list individually. The other 4,347 are new business and personal sites: they count towards the figures above but are not listed here. A watch sends them to you.

Site	Found	Also detected
Fidava — toda a gestão do seu negócio num só ecrã fidava-pt.com · France	Oct 19
teasr — what a buyer will ask about your numbers teasr.co.uk · Finance · United Kingdom	Oct 19
PublicGlobe · World news on a live globe, briefed daily publicglobe.com · Content	Oct 19
톡톡마이사이트 | AI 홈페이지·쇼핑몰 제작 ttmysite.com · South Korea	Oct 19
Rock8 Media - Marketing Agency for Brands that Sell rock8media.com · Marketing	Oct 19
Il menu digitale che fa ordinare prima e tornare gli ospiti — Menuppa menuppa.com · Italy	Oct 18
GVocab · Học từ vựng bằng Flashcard - Đa ngôn ngữ gvocab.com	Oct 18
Bookfolio Creator creator.bookfolio.io · Content	Oct 18
Efilmax · Plano de alimentação e treino feito para ti efilmax.site · Health	Oct 18
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

Showing the most recent 12 of 708.

Watches, exports and the API give you all 5,055 sites using Pexels, from £15 a month.

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.