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Wappalyzer uncovers the technologies used on websites

19 points by aram 13y ago

keltex 13y ago
Some of the data here is a little suspect. Example "programming languages": http://wappalyzer.com/categories/programming-languages http://wappalyzer.com/categories/programming-languages It says 90% of the web uses PHP, 8% Java and 2 % other.
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
  I suspect it just looks at extensions. .php and .jsp are easy to spot, as is the PHP HTTP header, RoR's utf8 tick is harder, and node.js apps and such are probably impossible.
- aram 13y ago
  That's only according to their analytics - not a real situation. It means that the users of Wappalyzer currently visit mostly those websites, nothing else.
cmircea 13y ago
I prefer Chrome Sniffer.
- joelhaasnoot 13y ago
  My only gripe is I have to look over its markup in pages I'm inspecting, but that's only when developing.
johnpolacek 13y ago
I'd love to see a search engine that crawls the source code of sites, so you could find great implementations of frameworks and plugins.
- adamseabrook 13y ago
  https://meanpath.com https://meanpath.com crawls the source and server headers.
TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
More accurately: "Identify software used on a website which identifies itself openly somehow". iWeb isn't the most popular editor, but perhaps is the most popular to advertise itself in generated pages.
TobbenTM 13y ago
Related: http://builtwith.com/ http://builtwith.com/ Online lookup tool which does not require Chrome or Firefox.
- TomAnthony 13y ago
  But does have an extension available.
RyanZAG 13y ago
That silly counter at the bottom using a fixed formula to count up a random statistic for no reason: http://wappalyzer.com/sites/default/themes/wappalyzer/js/counter.js http://wappalyzer.com/sites/default/themes/wappalyzer/js/cou... Can anybody explain the point of that thing? I'm assuming they do not query sites one by one continuously either.
Theodores 13y ago
I feel my browser is 'nude' without Wappalyzer. It does an excellent job of showing the icon for 'this is yet another Wordpress site', 'Drupal', '.net' and 'Magento' (amongst lots of others). This snippet of information is very useful to know if you are wondering 'how did they do that!' when you come across a very good site. It is also useful for showing what javascript frameworks are in use (although this isn't as at a glance as the main CMS tool). Beyond those two pieces of information I have no real need to use or fault Wappalyzer. It is simply brilliant. Slightly off-topic, however, the favourite Chrome extension has to be Hover Zoom: http://hoverzoom.net/ http://hoverzoom.net/ - I find a computer/browser really lacking if it does not have that on it!

19 points by aram 13y ago

Some of the data here is a little suspect. Example "programming languages": http://wappalyzer.com/categories/programming-languages http://wappalyzer.com/categories/programming-languages It says 90% of the web uses PHP, 8% Java and 2 % other.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago
I suspect it just looks at extensions. .php and .jsp are easy to spot, as is the PHP HTTP header, RoR's utf8 tick is harder, and node.js apps and such are probably impossible.
aram 13y ago
That's only according to their analytics - not a real situation. It means that the users of Wappalyzer currently visit mostly those websites, nothing else.

cmircea 13y ago

I prefer Chrome Sniffer.

joelhaasnoot 13y ago
My only gripe is I have to look over its markup in pages I'm inspecting, but that's only when developing.

johnpolacek 13y ago

I'd love to see a search engine that crawls the source code of sites, so you could find great implementations of frameworks and plugins.

adamseabrook 13y ago
https://meanpath.com https://meanpath.com crawls the source and server headers.

TazeTSchnitzel 13y ago

More accurately: "Identify software used on a website which identifies itself openly somehow". iWeb isn't the most popular editor, but perhaps is the most popular to advertise itself in generated pages.

TobbenTM 13y ago

Related: http://builtwith.com/ http://builtwith.com/ Online lookup tool which does not require Chrome or Firefox.

TomAnthony 13y ago
But does have an extension available.

RyanZAG 13y ago

That silly counter at the bottom using a fixed formula to count up a random statistic for no reason: http://wappalyzer.com/sites/default/themes/wappalyzer/js/counter.js http://wappalyzer.com/sites/default/themes/wappalyzer/js/cou... Can anybody explain the point of that thing? I'm assuming they do not query sites one by one continuously either.

Theodores 13y ago

I feel my browser is 'nude' without Wappalyzer. It does an excellent job of showing the icon for 'this is yet another Wordpress site', 'Drupal', '.net' and 'Magento' (amongst lots of others). This snippet of information is very useful to know if you are wondering 'how did they do that!' when you come across a very good site. It is also useful for showing what javascript frameworks are in use (although this isn't as at a glance as the main CMS tool). Beyond those two pieces of information I have no real need to use or fault Wappalyzer. It is simply brilliant. Slightly off-topic, however, the favourite Chrome extension has to be Hover Zoom: http://hoverzoom.net/ http://hoverzoom.net/ - I find a computer/browser really lacking if it does not have that on it!