Changelog

What changed in the data, the tools and the site — newest first.

2026-08-24

Corrected — market pages, Germany and Norway: two sentences published a claim about a national market that our own measurement gap had manufactured, and both are withdrawn. Germany's pricing section said the biggest platforms here price below the field; Norway's said renewal visibility was better than the storefront count suggests, at 98.2%. Neither market had moved. Two storefronts — one German, one Norwegian — had dropped out of the priced set that morning when our re-read of their prices went stale, and because a footprint-weighted figure divides by the storefronts in the set, removing them re-based both numbers. Germany's largest storefront prices above the field, not below it; Norway's dominant flat-price storefront is exactly the one that does not publish a renewal. Both prices have since been re-read and both storefronts are back in the set: Germany's weighted entry price reads €2.26/mo and Norway's renewal disclosure 38.1%.
Changed — every weighted figure on a market page now states the base it was weighted over. The pricing section publishes the share of the market's hosting relationships held by the storefronts we price, inside the sentence that makes the claim, and every comparison is written as a statement about those storefronts rather than about the country. A set that shrinks is now visible in the sentence itself instead of only in the number it moves.

Extended — analyst brief: AI website builders run 0.14% of Europe's business websites gains a section on what those sites are: every detection split by the shape of the page it sits on, with the conventional builders beside it as the comparator. No figure already on the page changed — the split is the same measurement cut a second way, and its shop and homepage rows add back to the counts the brief already published.
Added — analyst brief: AI website builders run 0.14% of Europe's business websites. Aggregate-level, no named hosting providers. It sizes the AI-website-builder category against the conventional hosted builders it is said to be replacing, on one page-read book across thirteen European markets, and publishes the concentration inside the category on two observation windows rather than picking one. Detection is a marker in the page, so every AI-builder figure is stated as a floor.
Added — analyst brief: The integration backlog is not stopping Europe's hosting buyers. Aggregate-level, no named providers. It measures integration as the state we can actually observe — whether an acquired brand's customers are served from a platform the buyer operates — rather than as everything that is not a backlog, so a brand bought last quarter and a brand whose mail alone has moved are each counted as what they are.

Series baseline — this log restarts here. HostingBrain published its pilot on 4 July 2026 and spent the weeks since in a private pilot: the measurements, the definitions and this page were read by us and by nobody else. Everything we changed, corrected or withdrew in that period is recorded and kept, but it was never a change to anything a customer had read, so restating it here would tell you about a company you never met. The public series therefore starts at this baseline and runs forward from the data version stated on the methodology page, which is the version every figure on this site is drawn from. Earlier editions are not part of that series and are not comparable to it. From this point forward every correction and withdrawal is published on this page — naming the figure, what it said and what it says now — and we will tell anyone we have shown a number to, unprompted, when a number they have seen turns out to have been wrong rather than simply re-measured.

Weekly data refreshes are routine and not listed individually — every tool response carries its as_of snapshot date.