BuiltWith tracks web technology penetration across the entire internet. Some of those technologies are owned and run by public companies, some public companies have parts of their systems in trackable web technologies, like Facebook, Google, Akamai – however their main business components are not as easily trackable. However some public companies have their majority operations […]
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We’ve just added tracking for the IABs ads.txt specification. The IAB’s mission is to increase transparency in the programmatic advertising ecosystem by allowing websites to create a public record of who it has direct and reseller relationships with, making it harder for counterfeit inventory to be shown on websites. We’ll be tracking the uptake of […]
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Along the same lines as our Google Analytics 360 Premium tracking that we added recently, we now also track variations of the Shopify platform. Shopify has had some explosive growth in the past few months and years. All of their plans are premium but they offer extended features such as no redirect on checkout to […]
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Thanks to our customers knowledge we’ve been able to track technologies we didn’t think were accessible. All of our tracking is evidence based; we have to find a signal that lets us know that a site is using a technology. We’ve just added Google Analytics 360 Suite Enterprise to our tracking which you can see here – https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics-360-Suite you can […]
Read moreWe’ve been tracking the usage of Magento versions for a few years now and have just added support for Magento 2 tracking as well as version based tracking for those versions of the very popular eCommerce based software. The interesting thing about Magento software upgrades is that they aren’t as simple as the one-click upgrades […]
Read moreWe’ve just finished an Entire Internet Update process we’re going to have a look at some of the winners in terms of customer acquisition for premium technologies in this post. The criteria for these companies is they – Had to have at least 1000 domains running their software at our last entire internet update in June […]
Read moreThe are a lot of articles out there weighing up the pros and cons of different Content Management Systems (or CMS as they’re often called). This is going to be a little different. Instead of comparing feature lists or the pros and cons of each, in this article we’re going to take a look at […]
Read moreWe’ve just added international support for tag based distribution statistics to BuiltWith Trends. This commonly requested feature now lets you see what the most popular technologies are in certain geographic locations in the world at the click of a button. To access the country based statistics click the “Country Statistics” option (shown in blue above) […]
Read moreWe’ve changed our methodology for counting if sites are using a technology in our Trends data. When we starting BuiltWith Trends 6 years ago, to find technologies we’d visit the homepage of websites and index them to create the trends. Fast forward to 2015 and we’re now able to find technologies across an entire website […]
Read moreWe now track shipping provider on BuiltWith. You can see the start of this tracking at http://trends.builtwith.com/shipping. This new data lets you create reports based around websites that offer shipping options with providers such as UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL, TNT, Royal Mail, Canada Post, Australia Post and many more. This is especially useful for finding […]
Read moreOf the 328 million domains we re-indexed we’ve seen growth in some of the usual suspects. WooCommerce has continued it’s growth increase by over a third, adding 247,245 domains with the technology. WooCommerce was acquired by Automattic in May of this year (Automattic are the company behind WordPress which is the software WooCommerce integrates with). Spree […]
Read moreJavaScript is a core element of modern websites. Of the 328 million domains we indexed the usual suspects top the most growth in terms of numbers. jQuery added an additional 2 million domains to their usage, increasing their market share by 4%. The biggest market share increases though was for a more modern framework called […]
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