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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As of May 1st 2018 BuiltWith is GDPR Compliant. We no longer provide or store personal details of citizens in the EU and no longer accept or store any personal identifiable information that is not your own that you might provide to us. We also have cancelled any third party relationships with data providers that […]
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BuiltWith in current form is now over 5 years old. That’s an eternity on the Internet. After 5 years of doing support tickets for the current BuiltWith platform we know exactly what needs improving, what bits never get used and what bits are really important to people. Rebuilding functionality removes a lot of the complexity […]
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To keep up to date with what runs on a website we’ve added new tracking to see the scripts used. This method of indexing allows us to add 1000’s of new technologies to the tracking by going beyond in-memory javascript objects to viewing the actual code loaded but potentially not instantiated by the website itself. […]
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