Yelp
Yelp, San Francisco, California, United StatesYelp is an American crowd-sourced review platform where users publish ratings and written feedback about local businesses.
It supports star ratings on a five-point scale, photo uploads, review filtering and moderation, business profile pages, consumer messaging, and embeds and APIs that allow reviews and ratings to be displayed on third-party websites.
According to our data, Yelp is the 5th most popular customer review platform on the web.
It has 9.5% of the customer review market share and is detected on 0.4% of all websites.
RedditπΈ Pricing
Yelp is available in both free and paid versions.
π Rankings and Market Share
- Customer Reviews
- Rank: 5
- Market share: 9.5%
- Social Media
- Rank: 15
- Market share: 0.8%
- Business Listings
- Rank: 1
- Market share: 45.6%
π Yelp Awards
- π₯ Most popular in the United States in the Business Listings category.
- π₯ Most popular in the United States in the Customer Reviews category.
- π₯ Most popular in Belgium in the Business Listings category.
- β 7th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
- π₯ 13rd most popular in Mexico in the Social Media category.
β‘ Sites Using Yelp
We have data on 15,388 websites that use the Yelp customer review platform. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Yelp is dynu.com.
π Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Yelp:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Marketing/Merchandising category.
Most of the sites using Yelp are from the United States.
- United States 95.1%
- Canada 1.1%
- United Kingdom 0.6%
- Australia 0.5%
- Germany 0.4%
- Mexico 0.3%
- Belgium 0.2%
- Spain 0.2%
- India 0.1%
- Other 1.5%
Most Yelp users speak English.
- English 98.9%
- German 0.3%
- Spanish 0.2%
- French 0.1%
- Chinese 0.1%
- Turkish 0.08%
- Japanese 0.05%
- Dutch 0.04%
- Italian 0.03%
- Other 0.2%
The Yelp customer review platform is especially popular on .com top-level domains.
- .com 90.2%
- .net 3.2%
- .org 2.7%
- .ca 0.4%
- .us 0.4%
- .com.au 0.4%
- .co 0.3%
- .co.uk 0.2%
- .biz 0.2%
- Other 2%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Yelp include marketing and merchandising, health, and business.
- Marketing/Merchandising 33.5%
- Health 13%
- Business 10.5%
- Restaurants 6.6%
- Travel 4.8%
- Online Shopping 4.5%
- Real Estate 4%
- Fashion/Beauty 3.2%
- Internet Services 3.2%
- Other 16.7%
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Trustindex㪠Frequently Asked Questions
What is the company behind Yelp?
Yelp is owned by Yelp Inc., headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Can I use Yelp for free?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
How much does Yelp cost?
The pricing for Yelp starts at $180 per month.
Which country uses Yelp the most?
The majority of Yelp users are from the United States.
Who uses Yelp?
According to our data, Yelp is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as dynu.com,
arhaus.com, and
alto.com.
Is Yelp used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by lavote.gov. Overall, we found Yelp on 2 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Yelp?
Yes. The most notable of these is drury.edu. In total, we know of 27 academic websites in the United States that use Yelp.
How does Yelp stack up against its competitors?
Yelp is a very popular customer review platform, second only to 4 other customer review platforms we track.
What are the alternatives to Yelp?
Alternatives and possible competitors to Yelp may include 
Tripadvisor, Restaurant Guru, and
Facebook Reviews.
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ποΈ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,511,995 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.