Download websites that use Yandex.Direct

About Yandex.Direct

An advertising tag says less about how a site was built than about how its owner earns from the page. Yandex has operated Yandex.Direct since 2001 as a Proprietary platform for search and network advertising, and the address we hold for the entry is the network's own portal for site owners who want to carry its ads, which is the side of that machinery a crawler can see.

As of October 2026 we detect Yandex.Direct on 43 sites. The pages behind the figure carry advertising code rather than a measurement counter, and the two are easy to confuse when you first look at advertising data. The company's separate analytics counter, Yandex.Metrika, is what a site owner places to measure their own traffic, and we track it under its own entry.

Carrying ad code is a durable business fact and a poor instantaneous one. Tags outlive campaigns and slots outlive the pages that once filled them, and a snippet left in a template after a site stopped selling space looks exactly like a snippet on a live account. We make no attempt to tell an earning placement from a dormant one, because nothing in the markup separates them, and any list built from tag presence should be read as evidence of a decision taken at some point rather than of revenue right now.

The kind of site that carries it is worth picturing before you download anything. Pages running network advertising tend to be content, media and community properties with enough traffic to be worth monetising, so the population leans toward publishers and away from brochure pages put up for a single business. Sites in the list also tend to carry a stack of neighbouring tags, analytics counters, session recorders, chat widgets and consent managers, which makes the domains useful as a joining key into the rest of our data rather than only as a standalone segment.

For a sales team, that qualification does much of the work in advance. A domain with the tag has an advertising setup that somebody signed up for and somebody still maintains, which puts it well ahead of a cold domain in any outreach list aimed at publishers. For a market researcher the interesting axis is linguistic and commercial rather than technical, because the platform serves Russian-speaking markets and its footprint follows business ties to those markets more closely than it follows hosting geography.

We hold no country or top-level-domain breakdown for Yandex.Direct in this profile, so the geographic reading has to be built from the domain list itself. Building it that way is more work and more honest than printing a share we cannot stand behind. A lookup on one domain tells you whether that site runs the tag. The downloadable list tells you which sites do, which is the version of the question that supports competitive research, agency prospecting or a study of how ad-tech adoption tracks language rather than borders.