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Websites using Image Placeholders

Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Team, which determines and stores the dominant color for newly uploaded images in the media library, then uses that as a placeholder background during front end image loads.

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Every Image Placeholders website we detected in the United States.

Only sites where a personal, company-hosted email was found.

Sites with at least one personnel LinkedIn profile.

Start with the highest-traffic end of the dataset.

Limit results to Image Placeholders websites on .com domains.

Only sites where an organisation phone number was found.

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Versions

Which Image Placeholders versions are most used?

We could read a version number on 100% of Image Placeholders sites. Of those, the most common is Image Placeholders 1, on 33,675 sites.

100% on v1
Versions detected
1
Sites with a version
33,675
Live Websites

Websites Using Image Placeholders

A sample of live Image Placeholders sites from our latest crawl, with the other technologies each one runs.

How many websites use Image Placeholders?

We found Image Placeholders on 33,675 websites in our September 2026 crawl, across 156 countries.

Which countries use Image Placeholders the most?

By number of websites, the top countries are United States (15%, 4,893 sites), Germany (10%, 3,450 sites), France (8%, 2,784 sites), United Kingdom (5%, 1,594 sites) and Netherlands (3%, 1,108 sites). Together they account for 41% of the 33,675 Image Placeholders sites we track. 45% of the sites are in English, and .com is the most used domain ending, on 45% of them.

Where are Image Placeholders websites hosted?

The networks carrying the most Image Placeholders sites are Cloudflare, Inc. (4,955 sites), Hostinger International Limited (3,789 sites) and OVH SAS (1,672 sites).

What technologies are used with Image Placeholders?

Across the 33,675 Image Placeholders sites we track, the technologies most often found alongside it are WordPress (over 99%, 33,570 sites), PHP (over 99%, 33,547 sites), MySQL (over 99%, 33,523 sites), Performance Lab (89%, 29,812 sites) and Modern Image Formats (82%, 27,703 sites).

Deep Dive

Breakdown of Image Placeholders websites

What else they run, plus their language, hosting network, domain extension and country.

FAQ

Answers drawn from our latest crawl of Image Placeholders websites. Anything else, email us and we will look it up.

Through our own crawl, which checks each site's HTML, scripts and headers rather than relying on self-reported data.