So What's Your Web Site Built With?

Here's a nifty tool I found via DeWitt Clinton (Williams '98): BuiltWith.com. You enter the URL for a website, and it tells you what technology the site uses.

For chuckles, here are the results of some analyst sites:

• Burton Group
• Forrester Research
• Gartner Group
• IDC
• Outsell
• RedMonk

Here are the results of some high tech retailers:

• Amazon.com
• BestBuy
• Circuit City
• Crutchfield
• PC Connection
• Radio Shack

Here are the results of some mainstream retailers:

• JC Penny
• Macys
• Sears
• Wal-mart

Here are the results of some colleges and universities:

• Amherst College
• Brown University
• Carleton College
• Dartmouth University
• Harvard University
• Stanford University
• Wesleyan University
• Williams College
• Yale University

Pretty nifty huh?

Since I'm in the midst of writing a report on web analytics, I noted which web analytics packages were being used. The colleges and universities aren't into web analytics--either that or they're using software, which doesn't show up in the page source. Only Brown and Stanford have a web analytics package listed: both use Google Analytics. (In the Stanford case, probably not a huge surprise, considering where the Google founders did their graduate work....)

The big winner is Omniture, with six of the sites: Burton Group, Crutchfield, PC Connection, Radio Shack, Sears, and Wal-mart. Google Analytics (a free package) is next, with four: Forrester Research, Outsell, Brown, and Stanford. Coremetrics (Crutchfield, Macy's), Crazy Egg (RedMonk, Forrester Research), and Visual Sciences [formerly known as WebSideStory] (IDC, BestBuy) all have two, with Mint capturing just one: RedMonk.

Comments

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It is a funny tool. IT is interesting to know the web technologies used by corporations to build their online presentations. Of course you don't need it for most blogs becase there are a very few popular platforms - WordPress, b2Evolution, BlogSpot and etc.

[Gadget Inspector]

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