Companies Using SitePad

I spent years on crawling infrastructure before we started TechnologyChecker, and bundled software is where a domain count most needs explaining. SitePad is a clean case. Our October 2026 crawl finds it on 4,778 live domains, 6th in Static Site Generators. A domain counts when its homepage carries SitePad's generator tag. That signal is hard to fake and easy to check: I fetched 4,663 of the 4,699 domains in our analysis in mid-October, and 3,930 served a SitePad page. The count measures something narrower than adoption: hardly anyone shops for SitePad, because their host gives it to them.

A builder that comes with the hosting

Softaculous sells SitePad to hosts by the server, $5 a month or $55 a year for unlimited sites, according to its pricing page, and it plugs into cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin and other panels. Hosts can rebrand it. So the decision is usually the host's, and the site owner clicks "Site Builder" in a control panel. One host stands out. 1,105 SitePad domains (23.5% of 4,699) use Afrihost's nameservers, and 1,135 sit on Afrihost's DNS or servers. Afrihost's website builder page offers it free with Linux shared hosting, and its help centre calls it "Afrihost Site Builder" in cPanel. 51 of the 53 sites in our set titled "Built with SiteBuilder" are on Afrihost. GreenGeeks is a distant second by nameserver with 158 domains, and IDwebhost in Indonesia has 94.

Sales signal: to reach SitePad users at scale, sell to their hosts. A partnership with one South African host touches about a quarter of this list.

Placeholders and dead sites

Free builders collect half-finished sites. Of the 3,930 homepages serving SitePad, 88 still carry the default title "My Website" and 218 show three or more blocks of the theme's lorem ipsum text. Another 273 kept the default "Built with SitePad" tagline under a real business name. Outside the working sites, 140 domains no longer resolved, 38 showed a host's "Account Suspended" or "Website Inactive" page, and 328 timed out. Failed fetches don't remove a domain from our count until a later crawl confirms it's gone, the same rule we apply to every technology.

Sales signal: filter out the default titles before outreach. A business still showing lorem ipsum is a warm lead for a web designer, not for a SaaS upsell.

Reading the chart

The chart reads 4,091 domains in June, 4,425 in July, 4,517 in August, 4,795 in September and 4,778 in October. I wouldn't call the 687-domain rise growth. Dead domains drop out each month and newly found ones come in, and our detection widened over the same months. Since we began tracking SitePad on 16 March 2026, 821 domains have dropped it on at least one hostname; 46 of those still ran it on another in October.

"SitePad's numbers are a hosting statistic. A quarter of its sites sit with one South African host, and most of its owners found it in their host's control panel, not on sitepad.com." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: treat SitePad as a stable pool of about 4,700 small sites that moves with its hosts' sign-ups, not with anything SitePad markets itself.

Who the customers are

77.44% of matched companies with a known size have 1 to 10 employees and 16.81% have 11 to 50. Half (50.68%) were founded in the 2010s and 26.19% in the 2020s. The industry spread is wide: IT services (6.52%), business consulting (5.99%), construction (3.96%), advertising (2.38%) and accounting (2.35%) lead, and the top ten labels cover only 29.93%. Retail is 1.96%. Most are brochure sites for service firms. Several of the larger names are colleges: the International University of East Africa, Thekwini College, Bulawayo Polytechnic and Universitas Kader Bangsa. Softaculous's own site, softaculous.com, runs on SitePad 5 too; we left it off the customer list.

Sales signal: the owner is the buyer, and price decides. Anything sold to these firms should arrive through their host or cost less than the hosting does.

Where they are

South Africa has 1,113 of the 3,288 matched companies, a third. The United States follows with 364, then India (242), Canada (119), Brazil (112) and the United Kingdom (109). The rest of Africa shows up too, with Kenya (36) in the top 15 and named users in Uganda, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Madagascar. Brazil, Mexico (79), Colombia (55) and Chile (52) add 298 Latin American companies between them.

Sales signal: for African and Latin American small-business campaigns, SitePad domains are a ready list of firms that already pay for hosting and a domain of their own.

Two generations of SitePad

Not every SitePad site is the same product. 2,965 of the 3,930 SitePad homepages we fetched run SitePad 5, a PHP engine laid out like WordPress: 2,958 keep uploads under /sitepad-data/, 2,826 link an API under /sp-json/, and that API answers with WordPress-style errors when you call it. The other 965 are static HTML exports from the older builder, the publish-static-pages model SitePad still advertises and the reason it sits in our Static Site Generators category. The WordPress-like layout explains the stack table, where WordPress shows on 71.65% of SitePad domains. Google Analytics runs on 21.28% and Cloudflare on 3.92%.

"Seven in ten SitePad domains also register as WordPress, because SitePad 5 borrows WordPress's file layout. Count that overlap as one product on the server." - Mehmet Suleyman, CEO & Co-founder at TechnologyChecker.io

Sales signal: the 965 static exports are likely the oldest builds on this list and the likeliest to be redone, which makes them a fair target for web designers and for hosts' managed WordPress plans.

What it costs

For site owners, SitePad's pricing page lists a Free plan (15 themes, one site, three pages) and paid end-user plans at $12, $24 and $36 a year for one, three and ten sites. If a licence lapses, the site stays up but can't be edited. Plesk's former extension page says SitePad was released in February 2017 by Softaculous Ltd, founded in 2009.

Sales signal: at $12 a year SitePad isn't a budget line anyone defends. Its users switch builders when they redesign, not when a renewal comes round.

Key takeaways

1. 4,778 live domains, 6th in Static Site Generators, but a hosting-bundled builder, not a developer tool.

2. Afrihost's nameservers sit on 1,105 of 4,699 analysed domains, and South Africa has a third of matched companies.

3. 3,930 of 4,663 fetched homepages served SitePad; 88 kept the default "My Website" title.

4. 77.44% of matched companies have 10 or fewer staff.

5. WordPress shows on 71.65% because SitePad 5 is laid out like WordPress.

How to use this list

Filter by country and host, drop the default titles, then sort by company size. For the full list of 4,778 SitePad domains with company, size and stack data, explore TechnologyChecker.io.