Web Analytics consulting company Tatvic recently used BuiltWith data to do a comprehensive study of eCommerce sites using Google’s Universal Analytics tag. We’ve been tracking Google Universal Analytics since January 2014 and have seen its popularity increase since then as it became the de-facto method for adding Google Analytics to a website. Internet Retailer published […]
Read moreUsing BuiltWith for Technology Research and Advisory
With thousands of SaaS applications, web frameworks and technologies available understanding which you should adopt can be a challenging task. Implementations are costly and time consuming, deploying the right product is important. Feature comparison won’t cut it when making critical IT decisions. BuiltWith is a powerful tool for assisting with technology research. Market Share Validation All 7,000+ […]
Read moreMoving to Real Time
BuiltWith first told people what websites were “built with” back in 2007, only 11 months after Google Analytics became fully available for people and businesses to add to their websites. In those 7 years web integrated services have grown into a billion dollar industry. The web is constantly changing and to keep up with the pace of […]
Read moreThe Growth of Premium Mail Providers 2014
For the last couple of years there has been a lot of hype around social media marketing, content marketing, growth hacking and a whole host of other buzz-phrases. Every so often “the next big thing” is announced and everyone seems to want to pile in. In all of the commotion, some of the more traditional […]
Read moreWho’s Using Magento?
Back in 2008, a new eCommerce platform was born. Magento, which was originally intended to be a fork in the development of osCommerce (a popular open source eCommerce platform), has been growing ever since. In 2011 Magento was acquired by eBay Inc and now sits amongst the top three eCommerce platforms on the web. In […]
Read moreMemory Indexing
We added a new method of detecting what technologies websites are using by looking at loaded websites memory signature. It compliments our full index retrieval system to show what functions and variables are in memory when a web site has loaded. The biggest advantage this provides us is the ability to track technologies that are loaded from compressed […]
Read moreMoz study examines Technology Choices and Search Rankings
Our friends over at Moz recently performed a study into how technology choices affect Google Rankings. They found there wasn’t much of a correlation, which is good news, imagine if using one hosting provider over another gave you some sort of unknown unfair advantage? Checkout the findings over on the Moz Blog and a big […]
Read moreTechnology Versioning Now Online
We’ve recently started to deepen our technology coverage of websites by providing versioning information for technologies where we can track them, in free lookups, Trends and Pro reports. We’ll also be backdating all of our technology coverage in Pro to the start of 2011 for this, so you can see what versions of software websites […]
Read moreWhat Is Tag Management?
The tag management market is one that has seen quite a lot of disruption over the last year. The overall tag management market has been growing for a while now and is showing no signs of slowing down. Before we get too deep in the data, let’s take a step back to understand what tag […]
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