Companies Using FiboSearch

I pulled FiboSearch out of our October 2026 crawl to see how far a free WooCommerce plugin can get in a category full of paid search services. The answer: first place. It's on 46,005 domains, 1st of 58 in Site Search, and 24,817 of those domains are matched to a company. A domain counts when a page we crawl prints the plugin's settings object, which FiboSearch writes wherever its search bar is drawn. I tested that on 80 random live domains. 67 pages printed it, and 66 of those 67 carried WooCommerce prices or add-to-cart buttons. Of the other 13, five sat behind bot walls, three returned errors or nothing, and five didn't show it on the page we fetched.

What the number counts

WordPress.org lists FiboSearch at 100,000+ active installations. Our 46,005 is smaller for good reasons. We count domains, not installs, so staging copies and local builds don't add to it. We only see the plugin where its bar is drawn on the pages we fetch, so a store that hides search on its home page is invisible. And we've already set aside 70 domains whose titles show a for-sale or gambling page. Read 46,005 as a floor on live storefronts.

The settings object also says which edition runs. In the random sample, 9 of the 64 pages that report it run Pro, about one in seven. On our list of larger companies the share doubles, to 20 of 71 pages. That fits the vendor's own comparison page, which rates the free engine very fast only up to 100 products and keeps 10,000-plus catalogues for Pro.

Sales signal: a FiboSearch Pro store has already paid for search once. That's the warmer list for a hosted-search vendor, and the free majority is FiboSearch's own upgrade pool.

Growth is mostly our coverage

The chart reads 33,228 domains in June, 42,760 in July and 46,005 in October. Don't read the June step as installs. Our crawl reached more of the web that month, the set of domains we crawl turns over every month as dead sites leave and new ones arrive, and our detection widens over time. After July the line adds 3,245 domains in three months. Since we started tracking it on 16 March 2026, 6,121 domains dropped FiboSearch on at least one hostname, and 541 of those still run it on another.

"FiboSearch tops our Site Search table, and most of the stores running it never paid for it. In this category, the free plugin is the market." - David Thomson, CTO at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: size the opportunity as about 46,000 live WooCommerce storefronts that already care enough about search to install a plugin. Don't pitch it as a fast-growing segment; nothing in our data says it is.

Who the buyers are

64.01% of matched companies have 1 to 10 employees and 25.25% have 11 to 50, so 89.26% have 50 or fewer. Only 86 have more than 1,000. Age spreads wider than size. The 2010s lead with 33.41%, yet 20.07% were founded before 1990, Cristalchile (1904) and Catupiry (1911) among them. Of the 50 companies on our list, 20 run FiboSearch on a subdomain rather than the main site: Kongsberg Automotive on its aftermarket parts catalogue, Sweco on its marketplace, Kompas on its official store, Schweppes Zimbabwe and AINS Group on their shops.

Sales signal: at larger accounts, the FiboSearch buyer runs a side shop or a B2B catalogue, not the corporate site. Prospect the e-commerce or parts team, and look for the shop subdomain first.

Retail first, and not American first

Retail is the top industry at 17.71%. Add Wholesale (4.87%), Retail Apparel and Fashion (2.1%) and Wholesale Building Materials (1.95%) and about a quarter of matched companies sell goods directly. Machinery, furniture and electronics makers fill the long tail. Geography is flat. The United States leads with only 2,981 matched companies, the United Kingdom has 2,054, and Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Argentina add up to 3,316, more than the US. The seven European countries in the top 15 add up to 8,618.

Sales signal: anyone selling into FiboSearch stores needs Spanish and Portuguese before a bigger US team. Localised onboarding is the gap.

Switching: none to report

Our crawl shows no FiboSearch switching flow. One thing looked like one: 12 domains that dropped FiboSearch now load Klevu's script. I looked at all 12. Six now serve Indonesian gambling pages that carry Klevu's script, four return errors or blank pages, one belongs to an unrelated cleaning company and one is a collectibles shop. These are expired WooCommerce stores whose domains changed hands, not merchants picking a new engine. Live stores stack engines instead. 67 FiboSearch domains run Doofinder too, out of 120 ever seen with both, and 12 run Algolia, out of 19. More than half of each pair still run both.

"The only thing that looked like switching was expired shops turned into gambling sites. When a store adds a hosted engine, it usually leaves FiboSearch running beside it." - David Thomson, CTO at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: sell a hosted engine to FiboSearch stores as an addition for the catalogue that outgrew the plugin, not as a rip-and-replace. The overlap data says that's how it already happens.

The stack around it

WooCommerce runs on 99.99% of the 45,440 live FiboSearch domains and WordPress on 99.84%. Elementor is on 50.71% and Divi on 10.83%, so about half of these stores were built with a page builder. Cloudflare sits in front of 30.35% and Hostinger's CDN 7.29%. Google Analytics is on 66.33%, PixelYourSite on 8.2% and Site Kit on 8.01%. CookieYes (11.18%) and Complianz (10.29%) are the common consent banners. Dokan, the multi-vendor marketplace plugin, is on just 0.5%.

Sales signal: anything sold to these stores should install as a WordPress plugin and work inside Elementor. Agencies that build on Elementor and WooCommerce are the channel.

Price and reputation

The core plugin is free. FiboSearch's pricing page (checked 14 October 2026) lists Pro at $59 for the first year for one site and 10,000 products, $99 for three sites and 50,000 products each, and $249 for 25 sites and 150,000 each, with renewals 15% off. WordPress.org shows a 4.9 out of 5 rating with 1,760 five-star reviews. The two numbers point the same way. Store owners like the free plugin, and only about 14% of the pages we sampled pay for Pro.

Sales signal: catalogue size, not price, triggers the upgrade. Free-version stores with thousands of products are the ones to watch, for FiboSearch and for its rivals.

Key takeaways

1. 46,005 domains, 1st of 58 in Site Search, nearly all WooCommerce stores.

2. About one sampled store in seven runs Pro; larger companies run it twice as often.

3. A small, international base: 89.26% have 50 or fewer staff, and Latin America outnumbers the US.

4. No real switching; hosted engines get added beside it.

5. Big companies run it on side shops and catalogues, 20 of the 50 on our list.

How to use this list

Filter by country and company size, and check the subdomain before you call: the shop team is usually the buyer. For the full list of 46,005 FiboSearch domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.