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Congrats, WhatRuns looks very accurate to my tests so far and indeed better in UI terms. I only have one extra UI recommendation that I think Wappalyzer got ri
by fevangelou 9y ago
Congrats, WhatRuns looks very accurate to my tests so far and indeed better in UI terms.
I only have one extra UI recommendation that I think Wappalyzer got right, which you could enable as an option.
When a popular CMS/language/server OS is detected, Wappalyzer will use its icon in place of Wappalyzer's plugin icon. E.g. if Joomla is detected, Wappalyzer's icon on the plugins' toolbar will switch to Joomla's logo.
There's a specific order to this preference that looks to go from the CMS used (e.g. Joomla, WordPress etc.) down to the framework (e.g. Laravel), programming language (e.g. PHP), webserver (e.g. Nginx) and finally the server OS. In other Words, if Joomla is detected, it will be displayed first, not PHP.
The above is extremely helpful for anyone developing for the CMS communities (like myself).
Of course, to maintain your identity as a plugin, you could use a double logo (a mashup of your own and the dominant/higher-level technology detected).
* UPDATE: You should also consider providing a way for anyone to easily suggest new frameworks, apps, CMS extensions/plugins etc. to be detected, by providing a name, icon, description and the way to be detected (e.g. HTTP header, pattern in the HTML output or even HTML comment, linked source etc.).
- jijosunny 9y agoThanks @fevangelou! Appreciate you taking time to drop your suggestions. Dynamic icon - I agree with you that it can be quite convenient to display the top technology (preferably the CMS). We will think about this as an option in the future updates! Technology submission - That's a great idea. We are adding this to our roadmap. Thank you so much.
- jazoom 9y agoAs a counter point, I really don't like that Wapalyzer does this. It always takes me a couple of seconds to find the correct extension to click because its icon always changes. If you keep your icon the same I will switch from Wapalyzer.
- jijosunny 9y agoWe got the same response from a ProductHunt user as well. Like we mentioned above, it will only be introduced as an 'option', which means you can happily switch :)
- jazoom 9y agoNice. I'll check it out today. Update: You've already won me over with the better layout (compared to Wapalyzer), separating them into technologies. The fonts is a nice addition too.
- jijosunny 9y agoAwesome! Glad you like it.
- jazoom 9y agoI still like it, but I'm starting to see a lot of things that are obviously incorrect. For example, facebook.com uses Google Analytics? Hacker News uses React? Most sites I check out have obviously incorrect technologies, so I don't know which ones I can trust. Unfortunately that makes this tool pretty much useless. Once you've fixed this I'll be sure to use it regulary.