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I run a system that tracks newly launched websites worldwide. In November it detected 677,544 new sites across 392 countries. Some findings from the dataset:
by antiochIst 10mo ago
I run a system that tracks newly launched websites worldwide. In November it detected 677,544 new sites across 392 countries.
Some findings from the dataset:
Geography (top countries):
United States: 253,589
India: 34,127
Canada: 20,263
United Kingdom: 18,701
Pakistan: 10,124
(392 total countries)
Industries:
E-commerce: 164,010
Adult & Gambling: large category overall
Gambling (L2): 84,353
News & Blogs: 49,424
SaaS products: 39,105
Niches (L3):
Online Casinos: 81,608
Clothing: 33,553
Niche SaaS tools: 31,881
Home Decor: 31,273
News & Journalism: 29,750
Platforms (detected on ~295k sites):
WordPress: 116,250
Shopify: 84,407
WooCommerce: 42,615
Squarespace: 25,328
Wix: 23,598
Webflow: 3,049
TLDs:
.com: 435,622
.store: 38,223
.org: 26,474
.online: 23,422
.site: 22,919
.ai: 6,167
Happy to answer questions about methodology, accuracy, crawling, classification, or detection heuristics.
- fallinditch 10mo ago81,608 new online casinos in one month! Presumably most of these are affiliate sites funneling new players. And 164,010 new e-commerce sites. Does this mean that drop shipping is still a viable business?
- antiochIst 10mo agoI don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...