Developer Tools adoption 2026
Last updated 2026-09-03
Key findings
- Google reCAPTCHA runs on 5.2% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Developer Tools tool.
- Google reCAPTCHA share runs from 2.6% in Commerce and Shopping to 7.9% in Energy.
- Google reCAPTCHA is most common at 51-200 employees, on 5.4% of sites in that band.
- Google reCAPTCHA share is highest in France, at 8.7% of crawled sites there.
- In Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google reCAPTCHA is the most used Developer Tools tool, on 4.5% of crawled sites.
- In Financial Services, Google reCAPTCHA is the most used Developer Tools tool, on 5.2% of crawled sites.
- In Biotechnology, Google reCAPTCHA is the most used Developer Tools tool, on 4.2% of crawled sites.
- Google reCAPTCHA, New Relic Browser, Cloudflare Turnstile hold 89% of all Developer Tools installs counted.
Google reCAPTCHA runs on 5.2% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Developer Tools tool.
Google reCAPTCHA was found on 425 sites. New Relic Browser came second with 28. Shares are of the whole sample, and a site can run more than one tool, so the bars do not add up to 100.
Google reCAPTCHA share runs from 2.6% in Commerce and Shopping to 7.9% in Energy.
Energy: 23 of 292 crawled sites run Google reCAPTCHA. Commerce and Shopping: 9 of 341. Only industries with at least 150 crawled sites are compared here; the tool page lists the rest.
Google reCAPTCHA is most common at 51-200 employees, on 5.4% of sites in that band.
101 of the 1,881 crawled sites with 51-200 employees run Google reCAPTCHA. At 11-50 employees the share is 5.2%.
Google reCAPTCHA share is highest in France, at 8.7% of crawled sites there.
36 of the 416 crawled France sites run Google reCAPTCHA, against 5.2% across all countries. Countries with fewer than 150 crawled sites are not compared.
In Artificial Intelligence (AI), Google reCAPTCHA is the most used Developer Tools tool, on 4.5% of crawled sites.
1,606 crawled sites are labelled Artificial Intelligence (AI), and 73 of them run Google reCAPTCHA. New Relic Browser follows at 0.3%.
In Financial Services, Google reCAPTCHA is the most used Developer Tools tool, on 5.2% of crawled sites.
536 crawled sites are labelled Financial Services, and 28 of them run Google reCAPTCHA. Cloudflare Turnstile follows at 0.6%.
In Biotechnology, Google reCAPTCHA is the most used Developer Tools tool, on 4.2% of crawled sites.
521 crawled sites are labelled Biotechnology, and 22 of them run Google reCAPTCHA. Atlassian Statuspage follows at 0.2%.
Google reCAPTCHA, New Relic Browser, Cloudflare Turnstile hold 89% of all Developer Tools installs counted.
536 installs were counted across 14 Developer Tools tools. This chart divides by that total, so the bars add up to 100.
Attrition funnel
| Step | Count |
|---|---|
| Domains selected for the sample Company domains drawn from the source universe. |
30,000 |
| Homepage fetched A response was returned for the request. |
8,948 |
| Fetch succeeded A 200 response with a readable HTML body. |
8,130 |
| Firmographics joined Industry, country and employee band all present. The base every share on this site is divided by. |
8,130 |
Named failures
| Reason | Count | Share of attempted |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP 502 | 249 | 2.8% |
| HTTP 403 | 243 | 2.7% |
| Connection timeout | 205 | 2.3% |
| SSL error | 55 | 0.6% |
| HTTP 429 (rate limited) | 20 | 0.2% |
| HTTP 503 | 11 | 0.1% |
| HTTP 500 | 9 | 0.1% |
| Connect | 5 | 0.1% |
| Proxy error | 4 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 401 | 4 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 526 | 3 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 530 | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 521 | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 525 | 2 | 0.0% |
| Too many redirects | 2 | 0.0% |
| HTTP 523 | 1 | 0.0% |
| Http520 | 1 | 0.0% |
Cite this
Google reCAPTCHA runs on 5.2% of the 8,130 company websites crawled, the most of any Developer Tools tool. , https://installmap.com/stats/developer-tools, Installmap, September 2026.
Last updated 2026-09-03