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title: "Copyright Year Statistics 2026: 26.0% Still Show 2025 - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/copyright-year-statistics
description: "452,273 homepages carry a 'Copyright © 2025' line and no mention of 2026. Among homepages showing a 2025 or 2026 copyright line, 26.0% are still on 2025."
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Copyright Year Statistics 2026: 26.0% Still Show 2025 (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/copyright-year-statistics)

452,273 homepages carry a 'Copyright © 2025' line and no mention of 2026. Among homepages showing a 2025 or 2026 copyright line, 26.0% are still on 2025.

Ranking sites with a past footer year, by best Google position

Position 1 (2,046 sites) 7.8%

Positions 2 to 5 10.2%

Positions 6 to 10 11.6%

Positions 11 to 20 (6,694 sites) 13.3%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. Homepage footers of sites in the Google top 20 for 10,019 US searches, Oct 2026.

A correlation, not a ranking factor.

Source: Copyright Year Statistics 2026: 26.0% Still Show 2025 - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/copyright-year-statistics)