Download websites that use Google Cloud Storage

About Google Cloud Storage

Object storage rarely announces itself on a web page. A site that serves its images, downloads and video from Google Cloud Storage is showing you an infrastructure decision taken well behind the front end, and that decision usually outlives whatever content management system sits in front of it. Storage is chosen by engineers and paid for by finance, not picked from a plugin directory.

As of October 2026 we detect Google Cloud Storage on 21,151 sites. Detection is honest but narrow. The fingerprint is a public storage URL or a response header that names the service, so what gets recorded is the slice of buckets a browser reads directly. Private buckets, database backups, log archives and anything the origin server fetches on its own leave nothing in the HTML. The count should be read as a floor for public asset delivery rather than as a census of the customer base of Google.

Google has run the service since 2010 under a Proprietary model, and the licence tells you more than it appears to. A Proprietary object store means a billing account, an owner inside the organisation and, in most cases, a wider commitment to a single cloud provider. Sites in this population are rarely single service customers. Storage is the visible edge of a stack that usually also involves compute, a content delivery layer and identity.

Presence also says something about the site itself. Domains that surface object storage tend to be asset heavy: media libraries, downloadable documents, product imagery at scale, or an application that hands files back to users. Small brochure sites keep their images next to their pages. Once the file count grows, or once more than one application needs the same files, storage moves out of the web root and becomes visible from outside.

The geography follows the same logic. United States supplies 17,026 of the sites we detect, and .com sits at the head of the suffix distribution. Concentration of that kind reflects where the service is sold and where cloud native engineering teams cluster, not where the data physically lives, since buckets are regional and a company can serve one country from a bucket in another.

A per-domain lookup answers whether one site uses object storage today. The downloadable list answers the question that carries commercial weight, which is who else looks like this. Cloud consultancies size migration markets with it. Competing storage vendors build displacement targets from it. Analysts studying cloud concentration need the whole population, because a single domain says nothing about a direction of travel. The value is in the joins: filter by country, by suffix, by what else runs on the same domain, and a raw count turns into a segment you can work.