Maps & Geolocation APIs Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)
Google Maps runs on 1,782,166 live websites, 77.9% of the 2,287,896 sites we detect using maps & geolocation APIs. Below, all 66 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.
Data updated Aug 19, 2026
- #1
Google Maps
Google Maps is the leading maps and geolocation platform with over 1 billion monthly users, detected on 1.78 million websites for embedded maps, store locators and location services.
Live websites1,782,166Market Share77.9%Top CountryUnited States - #2
Leaflet
Leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps, released under the BSD 2-Clause licence and created by Volodymyr Agafonkin.
Live websites232,303Market Share10.15%Top CountryUnited States
Maps & Geolocation Market Data
Adoption and 30-day momentum across 66 maps & geolocation technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.
Biggest Movers
Expert Insight: Maps & Geolocation APIs Market Share & Momentum
Google Maps holds about four fifths of this category, and the interesting half of it is not maps at all.
We detect a mapping or geolocation tool on about 2.29M live sites. Google Maps takes roughly 78% and Leaflet about 10%, so the top two are nearly the whole market. Underneath them sits a second, quieter group that does something different: IP lookup services that never draw a map.
Two tools, nearly nine tenths of the category
Google Maps is on roughly 78% of detected sites and Leaflet on about 10%, with the third name near 3%. Leaflet's position is worth noting because it is open source and self-hosted: it costs nothing and has no account behind it, so its share reflects a genuine build decision rather than a vendor relationship. The gap between the two is about defaults, since an embedded Google map is what most website builders and CMS templates insert without being asked.
Growth is in IP lookup, not mapping
Excluding tools we only began detecting inside the window, the clearest gain belongs to ipify, an IP address lookup service, with the other movers in the same group. Nothing in the mapping half of the category is growing meaningfully. That split is the story: businesses are adding geolocation to personalise or restrict content, which needs no map on the page at all.
The leaders are both slightly down
Google Maps lost about 17,900 more domains than it gained over the latest 30 days and Leaflet about 2,300. On a base of 1.78M that is a fraction of a percent for Google Maps, so read it as ordinary turnover rather than decline. Dropped means the embed stopped appearing in our crawl, which on a mapping widget often means a page was redesigned or the key expired, not that a business changed supplier.
Two different products in one table
Half of this category draws a map on a page and half answers the question of where a visitor is. They are not substitutes and they are not priced alike: an embedded map is billed per load against an API key, while an IP lookup is usually a cheap or free monthly allowance. If you are sizing a market here, split the table first, because a ranking that puts a mapping SDK and an IP service in the same column is comparing two different purchases.
Market Share
- Google Maps77.9%
- Leaflet10.15%
- Iipify2.74%
- IIPinfo2.1%
Mapbox GL JS1.69%- AApple MapKit JS1.17%
- …Others4.3%
Maps & Geolocation
FAQ.
What is Maps & Geolocation software?
Maps & Geolocation covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 66 maps & geolocation tools in this category on 2,287,896 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.
What are the most popular maps & geolocation platforms?
Across 2,287,896 detected sites, the most widely found maps & geolocation tools are: Google Maps (77.9% share, 1,782,166 sites), Leaflet (10.15% share, 232,303 sites), ipify (2.74% share, 62,581 sites). Others we see regularly include IPinfo and Mapbox GL JS.
Which maps & geolocation tool has the largest market share?
Google Maps is the most widely detected maps & geolocation tool at 77.9% share, on 1,782,166 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to Construction companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.
Which industries use maps & geolocation software the most?
The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Real Estate, Construction, Retail, Medical Practices, Restaurants. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.
Which countries have the highest adoption of maps & geolocation tools?
We detect the most maps & geolocation sites in United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, India, Germany. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.
How do I choose the right maps & geolocation platform?
Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. Google Maps, Leaflet and ipify are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.
How many companies use maps & geolocation software?
TechnologyChecker.io detects maps & geolocation tools on 2,287,896 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.
What is the source of this data?
TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.