Deployment platform statistics, October 2026

Four numbers for October 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 Google2.8Mvisits-7% vs a year ago
• Google searches390searchesfor "deployment platforms"
• Most visited site770KvisitsVercel, 28% of all
• Expected in November2.8Mvisits+2% vs last month

• 2,759,358 Google visits went to the 43 deployment platform sites RankDude tracks in October 2026, 7% fewer than a year earlier (26% more without Vercel).
• Growing: the deployment platform market is growing, but visits are down 11% since August 2026.
• 390 searches a month for “deployment platforms” worldwide, 18% of them in the US (Google Ads, 12-month average).
• 28% of all visits go to Vercel, the most-visited deployment platform; the five most-visited take 87.9%.
• 10.4% of visits come from the United States, followed by India, Brazil and the United Kingdom.
• 2,814,274 visits expected in November 2026, likely between 2.5M and 3.1M.

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

Growing, but visits are down 11% since August 2026.

Over two years, visits went from 1.5M in November 2024 to a high of 3.1M in August 2026, and stand at 2.8M in October 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

+26%

Visits, last six months

-7%

Name searches, US

+88%

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 10.4% of the visits, because the big sites also draw heavily from India, Brazil and United Kingdom.

Searches a month, US

70

Google Trends now

17/100 -65%

Five-year peak

77/100 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.

Open the Deployment platform search trends page

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

The fastest growers over the year, Northflank, Encore Cloud and Render, grew fastest, mostly from a smaller base. The losers, led by Porter, lost most of their search visits (-74%).

Visits vs September 2026

+3%

Biggest gain this month

Fly.io +52%

Biggest loss this month

Back4app -39%

Miles explains

Huge percentages like Northflank’s +124% usually mean one site won a big Google ranking from a small start. I watch whether it holds the next month.

Open the Deployment platform monthly analysis page

I expect November 2026 to be about the same as October 2026, and the next six months to look flat.

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

Expected in November 2026

2,814,274 visits

Likely range

2.5M to 3.1M

Expected in May 2027

2.8M +2%

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.

Open the Deployment platform monthly forecast page

The most visited is Vercel, with 769,951 visits a month, 28% of all visits.

Vercel and Netlify together hold 55% of all visits. Below the top five the market is long and thin: the other 38 sites share 12.1%.

Top five sites

87.9% of all visits

Visits from the US

10.4%

Largest markets outside the US

India, Brazil and United Kingdom

Sites tracked

43

Miles explains

Vercel alone has 28% 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, October 2026”, RankDude, https://rankdude.ai/statistics/deployment-platforms

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