AI mentions on the homepages of 37 website-building tools grew about 36-fold in four years
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A tally tracked "AI" mentions on the official homepages of 37 website-building tools from 2019 to 2026: in July 2022 these homepages totaled only 16 mentions, and now they reach 570, an increase of about 36-fold. The period covered by the tally runs from 2019 to 2026, but the comparison points cited are July 2022 and the present.
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- Hacker News AICounted "AI" on 37 website builder homepages, 2019 to now
An analysis of Wayback Machine captures of 37 website, landing page and scrollytelling builder homepages found 570 mentions of "AI" today versus 16 in July 2022, with IONOS, Elementor and Squarespace leading at 76, 36 and 34 mentions. The piece notes that older selling terms like "templates" and "drag and drop" persisted rather than fading, and that "agent" went from zero mentions in July 2022 to 99 now. The underlying CSV is released under CC BY 4.0.
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