I tracked 677k newly launched websites in November. Here's the breakdown
websitelaunches.comI 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.
81,608 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?
I don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...
Kind of a weird thing to track. The numbers just seem so large. 80k new gambling sites? How many of all the blogs are just 'blogspam'? Guess that doesn't matter right.
What defines a 'launch'? New domain registrations? Content being deployed?
I have a bunch of heuristics - but broadly speaking a new domain + a new good looking site. ie: some legit pages, legit socials, and some real owner/purpose behind it.
> Data is collected through automated discovery, domain registration monitoring, and continuous scanning.
Does this contain CT logs?