How to access technographics data providers in 2026
What to do to end up with a technology adoption number you can put in a post, a deck or a filing, and a source line that survives being checked.
1. Decide which set of companies the number describes
A share needs a base. Installmap crawls named lists as whole sets, so a number on this site is a share of that list: Inc 5000 (2026) (4,885 of 4,969 crawled), Y Combinator companies (5,386 of 6,133 crawled), Fortune 500 (472 of 500 crawled), Unicorns (1,000 of 1,111 crawled), SaaS companies (8,173 of 55,839 crawled) and Tranco top 10,000 (1,572 of 10,000 crawled), all crawled on 4 September 2026.
The groups page carries the six lists with the count of companies on each list and the count that returned a usable record.
2. Read the share on the group page, with its denominator
Each group page ranks the tools detected on that list. The heading of every table names the denominator, so a row reads as a count out of a stated base: 4,885 of 4,969 Inc 5000 companies returned a usable record, 5,386 of 6,133 for Y Combinator, 472 of 500 for the Fortune 500.
Carry the denominator with the number: without it a reader cannot check the figure. Where a segment holds fewer than 20 crawled domains the cell prints n/a rather than a percentage.
3. Copy the citation from the page
Every page that publishes a number carries a Cite this card: the suggested citation line, the canonical URL and the denominator the number divides by. Copy that line. It names the crawl date, which is what makes the number checkable later.
The counts are free to read and free to cite with a link back to the page they came from. There is no account and no form.
4. Check how the number was produced before you publish it
The method page states the crawl behind each figure: for the groups, every company on the list gets its homepage loaded in a headless browser, and the denominator counts the companies that returned a usable record. For the wider sample it states the source, a timeout of 12 seconds, a body cap of 1.5 MB and the named failures.
Detection matches the page against 275 fingerprints. A match shows that the site loads that tool's code. It does not show that the company pays for the tool, and that distinction belongs in whatever you write.
5. Know what the paid providers gate before you pay one
Providers differ in what is readable without a plan. Read from each provider's own pages on 3 September 2026: BuiltWith states individual site lookups are free and meters the lists of sites running a technology from $295 a month. Enlyft publishes company counts with industry, country and size breakdowns free and states no price anywhere on the site. TheirStack publishes a total company count per technology and meters the companies behind it by the credit.
The ranked list carries all eleven with one line each, and the comparison pages put each one against the same six rows.
What a group page will not give you
The published counts are aggregate. The company-level rows behind a group, one row per company, are not published. If the work needs named companies rather than a share, a provider that sells lists is the right tool, and the ranked list above says what each one charges for them.