# Wadline — full data summary

Independent directory and marketplace of IT service providers, operating since 2015.
Language is set by subdomain: wadline.com (English), ru.wadline.com (Russian),
de/fr/nl/es.wadline.com.

## Hourly rates by country

Median of published hourly rates, from company profiles on Wadline.

Method: USD quotes only (rates quoted in other currencies are excluded rather
than converted), values outside $5-500/hr discarded as data-entry errors, and a
country is listed only where at least five companies remain. Figures are what
agencies quote, not what projects finally cost.

- US: $75/hr median, from 39 companies publishing rates
- RU: $38/hr median, from 22 companies publishing rates
- BY: $29/hr median, from 18 companies publishing rates
- KZ: $37/hr median, from 13 companies publishing rates
- IN: $39/hr median, from 12 companies publishing rates
- UA: $39/hr median, from 12 companies publishing rates
- PL: $75/hr median, from 12 companies publishing rates
- CA: $103/hr median, from 5 companies publishing rates
- UZ: $55/hr median, from 5 companies publishing rates
- GB: $75/hr median, from 5 companies publishing rates
- EE: $45/hr median, from 5 companies publishing rates

Full table with 25th-75th percentile ranges: https://wadline.com/rates

## Service categories and supply

- web: 2616 companies — https://wadline.com/web
- design: 1993 companies — https://wadline.com/design
- agencies: 1734 companies — https://wadline.com/agencies
- integration: 1464 companies — https://wadline.com/integration
- mobile: 1383 companies — https://wadline.com/mobile
- software: 1346 companies — https://wadline.com/software

## IT salaries

Salary ranges by city and role, updated from market data:
https://wadline.com/salary

Each city page publishes an average and a median monthly range in USD and is
marked up as schema.org/Dataset.

## Startup liveness (the Pulse)

https://wadline.com/startups tracks whether a named startup is still shipping. The state is
measured, never voted on: eleven public signals from the startup's own site and
code, each weighted, with the weights renormalised over the signals that actually
resolved — so a company with no public repository is not scored as though its
repository were dead.

Weights: sitemap freshness 25, newest feed entry 20, most recent commit 20, most
recent release 10, homepage change 10, and 5 each for a pricing page, a careers
page, open vacancies on Wadline and a status page. Reachability is a gate rather
than a score component: a homepage that does not answer forces the state to
dormant on its own. Certificate expiry is weighted zero, because behind Cloudflare
or Vercel it rotates every 90 days regardless of whether the company still exists.

Honesty rules, stated because they limit what can be cited:
- No state and no score are published below three resolved signals, or with no
  time-based signal at all. Those profiles say "not enough signals".
- A signal we could not measure, or one the site's robots.txt told us not to
  collect, carries no weight in either direction and is reported as such.
- lifecycle_status is only ever set by a person. The measurement raises a closure
  candidate and a human confirms, because a failed request is as often a DNS
  migration or a bot block as a shutdown.
- Nothing a submitter can influence by asking people to click is measured: no vote
  counts, no traffic estimates, no social following.

Cadence: a growing startup is rechecked every 24 hours, steady every 3 days, quiet
weekly, dormant every two weeks. Every profile shows when it was last checked.

Machine-readable, including per-signal detail and the weights above:
https://wadline.com/startups/data.json
Method in full: https://wadline.com/methodology/startups-pulse

## How companies are ranked

- A star rating is shown only where verified client reviews exist. Companies
  without reviews display no score rather than a default one.
- Paid placement is labelled "Promoted" and does not earn a "Best" or
  "Top Rated" badge.
- Full method: https://wadline.com/methodology

## Citing this data

Attribute to Wadline with a link to the specific page. Rate and salary figures
change; each page carries its own update date.

Machine-readable index: https://wadline.com/llms.txt
Sitemap: https://wadline.com/sitemap.xml