Trends Update

We’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 […]

We’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 […]

The 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 […]

We’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 […]

Of 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 […]

JavaScript 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 […]

Of the 328 million domains we indexed recently there was significant changes in document standards being used. The large growth was for Windows 8 IE Pinning, a feature that lets you pin a website to the start bar of a browser. Having a website pinned to a users desktop is a huge advantage for that […]

Mobile usage is seeing one of the most dramatic increases and is definitely one of the biggest drivers of change on the Internet this year and previous. Non-scaleable content, meaning the site does not let the user zoom has been built to already fit into viewport of an iPhone, Android or other device. This technology increased to 6.3 […]

We update our Entire Internet coverage quarterly and provide an update on what has changed on a bi-annual basis via blog posts. We’ve broken these ones down into bite sized chunks as there’s just so much interesting information to digest. 328,852,063 Domains were indexed this quarter. In the past we’ve shown the increase in usage by […]