Did you know on BuiltWith you can customize the standard and detailed profiles? This makes the BuiltWith tool that is used every day by thousands of people that tiny bit more useful. For free users you can hide certain parts of the profile as well as define the sort order of the results, i.e. if […]
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We’ve added a Redirect Tab to lookups on BuiltWith – this works across the extension as well. It shows what other domains redirect to the domain, or if the domain redirects, where it redirects to. The redirect functionality is a part of the Pro tools but we’ve put it in the indiviual lookups for everyone […]
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We’ve just added a new section to BuiltWith Trends called ‘Awards’ – that lets you quickly see where a technology is popular for example – This is generally just interesting and it also gives some feedback about where a technology might be popular (for example it will tell you if a technology is number 1 […]
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When we index the Entire Internet we come across a lot of domain redirects. I.e. when you visit cottonon.com.hk and it automatically sends you to cottonon.com/HK/ like shown in the screenshot below – Previously we’d “lose” that link between the sites and just say we found the results at cottonon.com. That is changing today with […]
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We’ve changed the way we compile and show trends data for web technology usage across the top sites on BuiltWith. For the past 10 years the method we’d used for compiling the Trends data was to, index the top sites, then report how many of those sites were using the technology from that run. This […]
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I love this data, it’s probably one of my favourite golden nuggets that has come out of tracking web technologies. Some of the technologies we track are for publicly listed companies. However there’s two categories of companies in this group that we track, web focused and more general. More general are companies like Adobe, where […]
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Thanks for waiting! If you did wait, maybe you didn’t even know or care which is probably more likely. In fact most of these blog posts are produced because showing the site has changing and dynamic blog and social content might help improve traffic ranking but that’s a story for another day maybe. Here’s the […]
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Progress is being made on the BuiltWith redesign! One thing we’ve noticed with how BuiltWith is currently used is that the 80 / 20 rule really holds true. That is 80% of the time is spent in 20% of the product. To that end the 80% of the 20% is the priority for this new […]
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“We’ve updated our privacy policy” we’ve all seen that a thousand times this week. With that in mind we’ve just added a new category under widgets called “Privacy Compliance” that tracks all of the cookie compliance, GDPR Company and Privacy related technologies that have emerged and are now emerging, this includes the IAB’s Content Manager […]
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