Thursday, August 16, 2007
builtwith.com
I am taking the idea to post this story from Nikhil's blog. Builtwith.com is a site that gives a complete picture of what technologies a site is using foe web development. What my nice friend miss out on his post was a builtwith analysis of builtwith.com. Here's the summary for the same.
JavaScript
is a scripting language most often used for client-side web
development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much
more commonly used. builtwith.com uses JavaScript.
96.09% of all profiled sites use Javascript.
Analytics and Tracking
| Google Analytics offers a host of compelling features and benefits for everyone from senior executives and advertising and marketing professionals to site owners and content developers. Other popular sites using Google Analytics include globalsurfari.com, gennit.com, wordpress.com, readwriteweb.com, billycorgan.info and g2007.com. 40.43% of all profiled sites use Google Analytics. |
| Reinvigorate is an up to date site stats tool. measure. analyze. evolve. Snoop, a downloadable application allows you to track users in real time. 3.62% of all profiled sites use Reinvigorate. |
Javascript Libraries
| The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, DHTML and AJAX. 1.79% of all profiled sites use Yahoo User Interface. |
Widgets
| Widgets that allows visitors to save and promote builtwith.com 0.6% of all profiled sites use AddThis. |
| builtwith.com contains digg code to provide 'digg' functionality from this page. 2.72% of all profiled sites use Digg. |
Frameworks
| ASP.NET is a web application framework marketed by Microsoft that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and XML web services. It is part of Microsoft's .NET platform and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. Other popular sites using ASP.NET include gennit.com, multicore.amd.com, streetadvisor.com, nescafe.com, ajaxpro.info and workedhere.com. 14.47% of all profiled sites use ASP.NET. |
Advertising
| A contextual advertising solution for builtwith.com delivering Google AdWords ads that are relevant to site content pages. Other popular sites using Google Adsense include globalsurfari.com, billycorgan.info, feedmyapp.com, longboardlife.com, walkjogrun.net and nasdaq.com. 11.89% of all profiled sites use Google Adsense. |
Content Delivery Network
| builtwith.com uses Yahoo's API content delivery network to reduce stress of javascript downloads on the host server. 0.94% of all profiled sites use Yahoo CDN. |
Aggregation Functionality
| builtwith.com links to FeedBurner which is the leading provider of media distribution and audience engagement services for blogs and RSS feeds. Other popular sites using FeedBurner include readwriteweb.com, ebin.wordpress.com, 43folders.com, feedmyapp.com, script.aculo.us and blog.. 7.23% of all profiled sites use FeedBurner. |
| builtwith.com supports RSS; a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. Other popular sites using RSS include gennit.com, wordpress.com, readwriteweb.com, billycorgan.info, g2007.com and ebin.wordpress.com. 34.3% of all profiled sites use RSS. |
Document Information
| The OpenSearch description document format can be used to describe a search engine so that it can be used by search client applications. 5.7% of all profiled sites use OpenSearch. |
| builtwith.com claims XHTML Transitional status (check). XHTML 1.0 Transitional is the same as HTML 4.01 Transitional, but follows XML syntax rules. It supports everything found in XHTML 1.0 Strict, but also permits the use of a number of elements and attributes that are judged presentational, in order to ease the transition from HTML 3.2 and earlier. These include center, u, strike, and applet. 42.38% of all profiled sites use XHTML Transitional. |
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML |
is a scripting language most often used for client-side web
development. Its proper name is ECMAScript, though "JavaScript" is much
more commonly used. builtwith.com uses JavaScript.
96.09% of all profiled sites use Javascript.
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