Independent research on software adoption.
Reports and datasets from Installmap's own crawls of thousands of company websites.
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- No Fortune 500 homepage identifies visitors by name. 5.7% of YC homepages do 2026-09-15. 0.0% of Fortune 500 homepages run a person-level visitor identifier against 5.7% of Y Combinator homepages, and 84.6% of those YC sites have no consent-management tool detected.
- 63 of the Fortune 100 leave AI off their homepage, Amazon and Tesla included 2026-09-04. Only 33.0% of Fortune 100 homepages say AI anywhere in their visible text, against 58.0% of Y Combinator homepages. Amazon, Alphabet and Tesla are among the ones that do not.
- 7% of Fortune 500 homepages link to a podcast. The industry figure is 38% 2026-09-04. 33 of the 472 Fortune 500 homepages we could score link to a podcast, 7.0%, against a widely quoted claim that 38% of the Fortune 500 have a branded podcast.
- How we count 2026-09-04. What the four group crawls fetched, what the denominators are, and what a homepage cannot show.
- Klaviyo beats Mailchimp 109 to 91 on the Inc 5000. Mailchimp leads YC 53 to 19 2026-09-04. Klaviyo's signup form is on 109 of 4,885 Inc 5000 homepages and Mailchimp's on 91, and on 5,386 Y Combinator homepages Mailchimp leads 53 to 19.
- Half of the Inc 5000's llms.txt files were written by a plugin, not the company 2026-09-04. 48.3% of the 1,815 llms.txt files we found on Inc 5000 domains name the software that produced them, and the two biggest names are Yoast SEO at 17.8% and Shopify at 17.4%.
- Vercel is on 27% of YC homepages and 3.4% of the Fortune 500 2026-09-04. Vercel is on 27.3% of YC homepages and 3.4% of Fortune 500 homepages, and Adobe Experience Manager reverses those two numbers almost exactly.
- Vercel hosts 51% of the newest YC batches, up from 8% in 2012-17 2026-09-04. Vercel is on 50.8% of the YC companies in the 2025 and 2026 batches and on 8.2% of the companies in the 2012 to 2017 batches.
- 44.9% of the Fortune 500 run OneTrust 4 September 2026
- 33.4% of unicorns run Google Ads Conversion 4 September 2026
- 25.6% of the Inc 5000 run HubSpot 4 September 2026
Data
| Group | Companies on list | Crawled | Crawl date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inc 5000 (2026) | 4,969 | 4,885 | 4 September 2026 |
| Y Combinator companies | 6,133 | 5,386 | 4 September 2026 |
| Fortune 500 | 500 | 472 | 4 September 2026 |
| Unicorns | 1,111 | 1,000 | 4 September 2026 |
| SaaS companies | 55,839 | 8,173 | 4 September 2026 |
| Tranco top 10,000 | 10,000 | 1,572 | 4 September 2026 |
Software by category
Share of crawled domains in each group. n/a means the tool is outside the counts published for that group. <5 means fewer than 5 crawled domains in that group. Bases: Inc 5000 4,885, Y Combinator 5,386, Fortune 500 472, Unicorns 1,000, SaaS 8,173, Tranco 1,572. Every category is listed on categories, every tool on tools.
Badges
The most detected tool in each category, in each group, has an SVG badge with the count, the denominator and a link back to the page that carries them. Badges.
Wider sample
A separate plain-fetch crawl of 8,130 company websites, cut by industry, employee size band and country, is at stats.