How to access technographics data providers in 2026
One number, done end to end: what share of the Fortune 500 runs Adobe Experience Manager, where to read it, what to write next to it, and what the paid providers charge for the same question.
1. Pick the list the number describes
A share needs a base, and the base has to be a set someone else can name. Installmap crawls named lists as whole sets, so every number on the site is a share of one of them: Inc 5000 (2026) (4,886 of 4,929 fetched so far), Y Combinator companies (5,386 of 6,133), Fortune 500 (472 of 472 fetched so far), Unicorns (1,000 of 1,000 fetched so far), SaaS companies (8,173 of 9,008 fetched so far) and Tranco top 10,000 (1,572 of 1,573 fetched so far), all crawled on 4 September 2026.
For this example the list is the Fortune 500. Its page is at /groups/fortune500, and the groups page carries all six with the count of companies on the list next to the count that returned a usable record.
What this step gives you: 472 of 500 Fortune 500 domains returned a usable record. That is the base every number below divides by.
2. Find the category on the group page
The group page ranks the tools detected on that list, grouped into the 26 categories the fingerprints cover. Read down to the one the question is about rather than taking the top row of the whole page, which is usually a free Google tag.
In the CMS block the Fortune 500 order runs Adobe Experience Manager at 27.5%, WordPress at 14.4% and Drupal at 10.4%. Every one of those percentages divides by the same 472.
What this step gives you: Adobe Experience Manager leads CMS among the Fortune 500 at 27.5%.
3. Take the count, not only the percentage
The tool page inside the group, at /groups/fortune500/adobe-experience-manager, carries the count behind the percentage. Quote both. A percentage on its own cannot be checked, and a count on its own says nothing about how common the tool is.
The same page carries the tool in every other list it was detected in, which is the fastest way to see whether a share belongs to the list or to the market.
What this step gives you: 130 of 472 crawled Fortune 500 companies, a share of 27.5%.
4. Copy the citation card
Every page that publishes a number carries a Cite this card: the citation line, the canonical URL and the denominator the number divides by. The card on the group page reads: Installmap, software used by the Fortune 500, crawl of 4 September 2026, https://installmap.com/groups/fortune500.
The crawl date is the part that matters later. A technology share moves; a share with a date on it stays checkable after it has moved.
What this step gives you: A citation line naming the crawl of 4 September 2026.
5. Read the method before publishing the number
Two sentences on the method page decide how the number can be written up. On detection: "The HTML, response headers and cookies of each fetched page are matched against 448 fingerprints: script hosts, generator meta tags, response headers, cookie names and asset paths on the site's own host. The fingerprints cover 26 software categories. One match records one install. A match shows that the site loads that tool's code. It does not show that the company pays for the tool."
On the publishing floor: "A cell is published once its base reaches 20 crawled sites; below that it reads n/a. Findings on the stats pages compare only segments with at least 150 crawled sites." Group segment tables use their own floor, 100 crawled domains in a segment, and print n/a below it. The method page also states what the crawl missed: for the Fortune 500, 28 of 500 domains returned no usable record at all.
What this step gives you: 448 fingerprints, 26 categories, and a floor under every published cell.
6. Compare what the paid providers gate
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, 228,936 on its HubSpot page, and meters the companies behind it at $109 for 1,000 credits.
None of the three publishes a sample definition or a failure count, so a number taken from them cannot carry a denominator into your write-up. The ranked list carries all eleven with the table, and the comparison pages put each one against the same rows.
What this step gives you: Free counts with no base, or a base you cannot see, at $295 a month and up.
Citing it
The counts are free to read and free to cite with a link back to the page the number came from. There is no account and no form.
Carry three things into whatever you write: the percentage, the denominator it divides by, and the crawl date. Written out, the Adobe Experience Manager number reads as 27.5% of the 472 Fortune 500 companies whose homepage returned a usable record on 4 September 2026.
What this cannot answer
The published counts are aggregate. The company level rows behind a group are not published, so this site cannot tell you which named companies are in the 130.
A detection is a match on a homepage. Some software leaves no mark on one: server-side tracking that runs in the company's own backend, email marketing that only appears in sent mail, and anything behind a login. Payment processing is counted only where the vendor's script loads on the homepage itself, so those shares are a floor rather than a total. The tools deliberately left out for this reason are named on the method page.