Deployment platform statistics, September 2026

Four numbers for September 2026, each counted over the month. Visits mean visits from Google search to the 43 deployment platform sites I track. Tap one for the details.

• Visits from Google2.7Mvisits-9% vs a year ago
• Google searches390searchesfor "deployment platforms"
• Most visited site770KvisitsVercel, 29% of all
• Expected in October2.8Mvisits+6% vs last month

• 2,671,923 Google visits went to the 43 deployment platform sites RankDude tracks in September 2026, 9% fewer than a year earlier (27% more without Vercel).
• Growing: the deployment platform market is growing, but visits are down 14% since August 2026.
• 390 searches a month for “deployment platforms” worldwide, 18% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 29% of all visits go to Vercel, the most-visited deployment platform; the five most-visited take 86.9%.
• 10.6% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
• 2,822,498 visits expected in October 2026, likely between 2.5M and 3.1M.

Source: DataForSEO, Google Ads and Google Trends, September 2026, compiled by RankDude.

Growing, but visits are down 14% since August 2026.

Over two years, visits went from 2.0M in October 2024 to a high of 3.1M in August 2026, and stand at 2.7M in September 2026. Much of the year’s change is one site, Vercel, which is why I also look at the market without it.

Visits, year on year

+27%

Visits, last six months

-9%

Name searches, US

+93%

Busiest month (2 years)

August 2026, 3.1M visits

Miles explains

I only call a market growing when visits and name searches agree. Here visits are up and name searches are up, so they agree.

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“deployment platforms” is searched about 390 times a month worldwide, 18% of it in the US.

Google Trends barely registered “deployment platforms” until June 2025; interest then climbed to its peak in September 2025. Americans make 18% of the searches but only 10.6% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Brazil and United Kingdom.

Searches a month, US

70

Google Trends now

29/100 -62%

Five-year peak

76/100 in September 2025

Miles explains

Google Trends shows direction, not volume. Interest is lower than a year ago, and I only trust that when the visits move the same way.

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Fewer visits than a year ago only because of Vercel, but more people searching by name, and the next six months look flat after a step up.

The fastest growers over the year, Encore Cloud, Northflank and Railway, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Porter, lost most of their search visits (-73%).

Visits vs August 2026

-14%

Biggest gain this month

Clever Cloud +43%

Biggest loss this month

Vercel -28%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Encore Cloud’s +214% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

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I expect October 2026 to be 6% more than September 2026, and the next six months to look up.

The forecast carries the level of recent months forward, not the trend line, because that version missed least when tested on past months. October is usually a quieter month than average for searches, but the calendar did not improve the forecast, so it is left out.

Expected in October 2026

2,822,498 visits

Likely range

2.5M to 3.1M

Expected in April 2027

2.8M +6%

Past forecasts in range

4 of 6 months

Miles explains

Read the range, not the single number: tested on the last 6 months, my method landed inside its range 4 times.

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The most visited is Vercel, with 770,488 visits a month, 29% of all visits.

Vercel and Netlify together hold 53% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 38 sites share 13.1%.

Top five sites

86.9% of all visits

Visits from the US

10.6%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Brazil and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

43

Miles explains

Vercel alone has 29% of all visits. That’s a big lead, but one Google update can close it fast.

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Yes. Every number on these pages comes from two CSV files, free to download.

Cite as: Miles Foster, “Deployment Platforms Statistics, September 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/deployment-platforms/statistics

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