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Image Placeholders

26,823

companies run it, 0.05% of 54,527,857 in the index. Landing 12 Sept 2026.

Hosts: 40,555 live hosts run it, of 191,809,695 hosts in the index, 0.02%. A host is a website, not a company.

Companies by month

Companies, monthly, on the fixed panel of sites crawled since 2020of 54,527,857 in the indexlanding 12 Sept 2026

26,823 at Sept 26; 948 twelve months earlier, +25,875, +2729.4% on the fixed panel; the series starts January 2021 because the panel is anchored at 31 Dec 2020

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2026-0314,954867
2026-0416,200939
2026-0517,6731,024
2026-0619,4401,127
2026-0721,6001,252
2026-0824,3001,408
2026-0926,8231,555

Both denominators, and a third

Shares of the same 26,823each row a different wholelanding 12 Sept 2026

Denominator
Companies
Share
companies in the index
54,527,857
0.05%
companies running anything in Performance and Caching
5,393,469
0.50%
companies running anything in Website performance plugins
3,118,513
0.86%

Three wholes, three shares of one count: a share travels with its whole, never alone. Against the last of them, Image Placeholders is rank 14 of 26 technologies in Website performance plugins.

Open as a segment

26,823 companies; add a country, a sector or a band on the segment page. Counting is free.

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Catalogue record

As recorded in the cataloguetaxonomy release tax-2026.10last discovered 10 Sept 2026

WordPress plugin that generates image placeholders to improve page load and visual stability.

Image Placeholders is a WordPress plugin that creates dominant-color or blurred placeholders for images to reduce layout shifts and speed up perceived loading. It is distributed via WordPress.org under an open-source license.

Kindextension
PathInfrastructure and Hosting > Performance and Caching > Website performance plugins
Slugimage-placeholders
Deploymentself-hosted
Pricingfree
Open sourceyes
First discovered2026-02-25
Last discovered2026-09-10
Taxonomy releasetax-2026.10