It seems to only look at the second-level domain, and thinks that websites with the same subdomain are the same.
They are not.
Most users like to know the full tech stack of a website. If there is a blog at blog.company.com and if it is using Intercom, it can be a useful data. I hope this makes sense.
Anyway, we will definitely address this concern and think about adding an option for subdomain separation.
But all of them are evaluated as one, govt.nz. But they are all quite separately hosted and operated and use differing technologies.
Looks like this works fine for other similar situations e.g. .co.uk.
This is a really cool service, thanks for making it available for use!
Thanks, and glad you liked the product!
1. WhatRuns detects fonts, Wordpress plugins and themes (tens of thousands of them).
2. Ability to follow sites (and know what techs websites started using/ditched).
3. Very lightweight compared to our counterparts, and arguably better UI ;)
4. More accurate data. BuiltWith can be very inaccurate as you might've already noticed. Wappalyzer is fairly accurate, but limited in technologies. WhatRuns is trying to be the best of both worlds.
I tried a great deal of sites using similar tech, and an infinite spin is all I get on all cases.
Please drop me a line if you're still experiencing this issue: jijo [at] whatruns.com. Thanks!
Looks like it's not picking up Django! ;)
We were featured on Chrome Webstore a few weeks back and got a great response (12k+ active users) helped us enormously in improving the accuracy and efficiency, and I'm sure HN and PH launch will be even more helpful in improving the product.
Also, Wordpress doesn't seem to be detected, either, on my other website: https://johnrockefeller.net
It's 2017 man, things are launched with kinks all the time now. Your definition of launch ready doesn't have to apply to everyone else.
IMHO it’s a very good thing we’ve "accepted things are going to broken at launch"; the "ship early, release often" model works a lot better than "wait 10 years before release so that everything is perfect but you’re 9 years late".
That is the assumption of broken hardware to be shipped 17 years avant la lettre?
However, there is a lot of manual labour involved in correcting detection inaccuracies, which our team is working full-time on. Rest assured WR will only improve from here on. Thank you for dropping by!
Try running it on www.example.com and let me know how many of those are accurate.
> Built With:
> - Ruby on Rails
> - Ember.js
> ...
From another comment I understand that it shows all detecting stuff for all subdomains, so this is the case.
We are truly stunned to see us on top of HN today! :)
WhatRuns is a free browser extension that shows you what runs a website – from ad networks and developer tools to fonts and Wordpress plugins. You can also follow websites and get notified when they add or remove technologies.
We soft-launched a couple of weeks back and was lucky enough to be picked up by the Chrome team. We were featured on the Chrome Webstore, landing us 12k active users in one week. It was a huge validation and helped us tremendously in squashing bugs and making a finished product. We realise we have a long way to go, and our little team is working round the clock to make it happen. We also launched on ProductHunt today: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/whatruns
Would love to hear what you think :)
UPDATE:
Thank you for all the feedback!
Sorry about the occasional false detections. We are looking into this. This is largely because we detect a considerably large number of technologies/plugins compared to our counterparts. Lots of possibilities for false pattern recognition etc. Rest assured our team is working round the clock to improve accuracy and add more technologies/plugins.
Also, Our servers are going a bit cranky due to the huge traffic we are experiencing today. New websites (that was not loaded on WhatRuns before) are now queued up and might experience 2-3 seconds delay. This is to ensure best experience for our active users.
Thank you so much for such a great response!