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Studies by Recolor (recolor.page), a website color changer whose engine reads every color of a page: what the most-linked websites use, how they write it, and the data behind every figure.
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The colors of the web 2026
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The colors of the web 2026
49% of the 1,000 most-linked websites have a blue main color; the median site's CSS holds 113 distinct colors. With the data, CC BY. - Research
The colors of the web 2026: methodology
How Recolor read the CSS of 1,000 of the most-linked home pages: Majestic's list, robots.txt first, no images or scripts, and every definition.
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What colors do most websites use?
Blue is the main color of 49% of the 1,000 most-linked websites, red of 16%, cyan of 5.6%; 3.2% use no color at all. Measured in their CSS. - Research
How many colors does a website use?
The median website's CSS holds 113 distinct color values; merged where near-identical, its home page uses 18 colors in 3 hue families. - Research
How many websites use OKLCH in 2026?
5.9% of the most-linked websites write a color in oklch(); hex is on 99.6% and is 81% of all color values, 996 sites measured.