YouTube on new websites

YouTube video embed (youtu.be / youtube.com).

Sites using YouTube
110,861
since Apr 2026
Last 30 days
1.7%
of new sites, to Oct 18
-0.3 pts on the 30 days before
Last 7 days
1.7%
of new sites, 7-day average
+0.1 pts on the week before
Rank in Video
#1
of 660 tools, all time
In our data since Apr 2026
Last seen Oct 19, 2026
Website youtube.com

What we found

  1. About 1 in 60 websites that went live in the last 30 days use YouTube (1.7%).[1]
  2. It is the most common video platform on new sites.
  3. It is unusually common among content launches: 19%, against 6.5% across new sites.

Share of new sites using YouTube

0% 1% 2% 3% 10 Sep Oct

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

Who uses YouTube

Kind of site 34,325 sites with a known type
TypeSitesShareBar
Content 6,412 18.7%
Health 4,546 13.2%
Education 4,081 11.9%
E-commerce 3,112 9.1%
Games 2,896 8.4%
Marketing 2,888 8.4%
Productivity 2,007 5.9%
Finance 1,861 5.4%
Social 1,656 4.8%
Developer Tools 1,545 4.5%
AI 1,266 3.7%
Design 689 2.0%
Country[2] 21,533 sites with a likely country
CountrySitesShareBar
India 4,281 19.9%
France 2,624 12.2%
US 2,155 10.0%
UK 1,891 8.8%
Australia 1,424 6.6%
Canada 1,047 4.9%
Japan 953 4.4%
Brazil 844 3.9%
South Korea 713 3.3%
Vietnam 616 2.9%
Germany 454 2.1%
Poland 393 1.8%
Domain ending 110,824 sites
EndingSitesShareBar
.com 65,384 59.0%
.in 5,523 5.0%
.org 4,618 4.2%
.online 3,317 3.0%
.app 2,549 2.3%
.fr 2,541 2.3%
.net 2,364 2.1%
.site 2,293 2.1%
.uk 1,890 1.7%
.co 1,491 1.4%
.ca 1,423 1.3%
.ai 1,274 1.2%
Green hosting[3] 5,777 checked sites since Apr 2026
SitesGreenBar
YouTube 48%
All new sites 47%

Video on new sites

# Movement Tool Share of all sites Share of category Bar
1 – YouTube 1.8% 59.9%
2 – Vimeo 0.9% 30.6%
3 – MediaElement.js 0.2% 7.5%
4 – Plyr 0.1% 3.4%
5 – Wistia 0.1% 3.0%

All-time shares across the new sites we track: of all of them, and of the sites using any Video tool. YouTube is typically used alongside Vimeo rather than instead of it. All 660 in Video

Often used with YouTube

Tool Sites with both vs all new sites Bar
Google Analytics 34,409 3.0x
Google Tag Manager 35,235 2.7x
jQuery 35,471 2.3x

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

Recently launched products built on YouTube

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.

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 YouTube when we detect YouTube 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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