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Numbers from public records, posted when they're news. Does an employer sponsor H-1B? Free lookup, 150k employers: locaihost.org/visa-sponsors/employers Jobs, visa, SEC & email-security data. Not a typo: locaihost.

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Microsoft, Adobe and 6 IT firms were suspended from PERM, the first step of an employer green card, on Oct 8. They weren't equally exposed. Certified PERM cases, FY2024–26 to date: Microsoft 6,263 TCS 2,305 Cognizant 1,235 Adobe 733 Capgemini 642 HCL 619 Wipro 519 Infosys 100

Claude is the software chatbot: 4.5% of AI referrals at software and developer tool sites, 2.5x its average. It comes first at duosecurity.com (96.2%), okta.com (79.2%), figma.com (49.9%) and hubspot.com (49.2%).

Perplexity leans to news and the Russian-language web: first at 13 news sites incl. nytimes.com and spiegel.de, and 11.2% of AI referrals at .ru sites vs 2.2% elsewhere. Gemini is No. 2 in 22 of 23 industries. The data comes from our website-traffic tool on Apify.

The biggest shares go to research and government sites: oecd.org 8.9%, nist.gov 7.2%, who.int 6.8%, nih.gov 5.5%. News sites get 0.28%, about half the average. Wikipedia gets 0.12%.

ChatGPT is the top AI referrer at 718 of 793 sites (91%). Gemini comes first at 41, Claude at 14 (almost all business and developer software) and Perplexity at 13. Our website-traffic tool on Apify returns the same fields for your own list of sites.

New on the Apify Store: Google Jobs with visa sponsorship flags ($0.75/1k), Upwork job posts with client stats ($1/1k), Medium posts ($0.50/1k), website screenshots and PDFs, and OCR for scans where text pages are free. No login, pay per row. https://locaihost.org/

New on the Apify Store: YouTube transcripts ($1.50/1k), Trustpilot reviews with reply rates ($0.25/1k), App Store + Google Play reviews ($0.10/1k), People Also Ask with AI Overview citations, and Glassdoor jobs. Pay per row, no login. https://locaihost.org/

Three more of our tools went public today: Which UK public bodies pay suppliers late, from their official payment reports, and whether each is getting worse. Google Trends for up to 50 terms on one scale. TikTok creator vetting. apify.com/locaihost

Two new tools from us on the Apify Store today: Google Maps leads with every website actually checked (down, parked, no HTTPS, not mobile-ready), each row scored with the reason. LinkedIn jobs flagged with the employer's real H-1B filings and UK sponsor licence. apify.com/locaihost

On a visa and job hunting? We took this week's software, data and product jobs on LinkedIn in New York, the Bay Area, Seattle and Austin and kept only employers that have certified H-1B filings with the US Department of Labor. 35–49 such employers per city. 🧵

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Why filings and not job ads: most ads never say whether the company sponsors, and many that sponsor never mention it. The DOL filings say it for them. An LCA is the first step of an H-1B, not an approval, so treat it as evidence, not a promise.

On a visa and job hunting? We took this week's software, data and product jobs on LinkedIn in New York, the Bay Area, Seattle and Austin and kept only employers that have certified H-1B filings with the US Department of Labor. 35–49 such employers per city. 🧵

Beyond Amazon and Google, plenty of smaller sponsors are hiring right now. FY2026 certified H-1B LCAs so far: Cloudflare 120 Rippling 84 Affirm 59 Plaid 28 All had open roles this week.

We checked the websites of plumbers, electricians, roofers, landscapers, painters and locksmiths on Google Maps in 5 cities: Leeds, Manchester, Brisbane, Denver, Austin. 70 had a website that's a real problem. 38 have no website at all, or only a social-media page. 🧵

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How we checked: every site was actually fetched. Sites that block automated checks were left out instead of being called broken, and we re-checked the 72 flagged businesses with a second, independent client: 70 agreed. The other 2 were dropped.

We checked the websites of plumbers, electricians, roofers, landscapers, painters and locksmiths on Google Maps in 5 cities: Leeds, Manchester, Brisbane, Denver, Austin. 70 had a website that's a real problem. 38 have no website at all, or only a social-media page. 🧵

The rest: 8 list a website that's down, 8 return an error page, 7 point at a parked or "coming soon" domain, and 9 still have no HTTPS, so browsers warn visitors away. Manchester had the most (24), Austin the fewest (6).

We read every open job on the career pages of 300 tech companies on 10 Oct: 29,816 postings. 55% show a pay range. In US states with pay-transparency laws it's 87%. In postings that list only other states, 31%. The laws are doing exactly what they say. 🧵

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Remote is rarer than it feels. Of 8,230 postings that state an arrangement: 38% on-site, 34% hybrid, 28% fully remote. US postings are less remote than the rest: 24% vs 34%.

We read every open job on the career pages of 300 tech companies on 10 Oct: 29,816 postings. 55% show a pay range. In US states with pay-transparency laws it's 87%. In postings that list only other states, 31%. The laws are doing exactly what they say. 🧵

Some companies publish ranges only where the law makes them. 16 post ranges at least 10 points less often outside the four transparency states. Rocket Lab: 100% inside vs 0% outside. xAI: 87% vs 4%. Navan: 90% vs 10%.

Amazon and Apple filed more green-card certifications than 7 of the 8 companies suspended from PERM this week. Microsoft alone is half the total. Infosys barely uses PERM at all: 100 cases against 16k H-1B filings. #H1B #immigration #dataviz

Microsoft, Adobe and 6 IT firms were suspended from PERM, the first step of an employer green card, on Oct 8. They weren't equally exposed. Certified PERM cases, FY2024–26 to date: Microsoft 6,263 TCS 2,305 Cognizant 1,235 Adobe 733 Capgemini 642 HCL 619 Wipro 519 Infosys 100

We checked the email DNS of the top 1,000 websites (Tranco list, Oct 2026). 84.5% publish DMARC, but only 47.4% tell receivers to reject spoofed mail. The top 100 do better: 62% reject vs 45.8% for ranks 101–1,000. 🧵

We read 1.57M US Labor Dept H-1B filings (FY2024 to June 2026). Five findings 🧵 1. Filings fell 8.1% like-for-like this year. 20 IT-services firms filed 32% fewer and caused a third of the drop. TCS −56%, IBM −64%. Infosys +18%, Nvidia +71%.

2. Most sponsors are tiny: 51.6% of the 63,545 employers that filed in FY2025 filed exactly one. 3. Who you work for matters more than the visa. Median offered wage for software engineers: Salesforce $211,686, Meta $203,350, Google $186,000, TCS $112,986.

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