WAPPALYZER — Identify Technologies on Websites.

Have you ever been amazed by visiting some website? There are many a time when we visit a site and are fascinated by the design and development of the website. We become curious to know about how could they have created that. Developing a similar site is not that easy since companies/developers don't readily reveal how did they create it? Or Which technology did they use?

So what to do? Can you simply google it? (Like, which technology is used in developing site www.xyz.com or so?). Perhaps no.

So we have an amazing tool, named as Wappalyzer, which is present as an extension for many popular browsers.

Here is a list of what all information can you find using this tool —

• The web server being used to host the site.
• JavaScript Framework
• Font Scripts
• Programming Language
• Analytics tool
• CDN/CMS
• Blogging tool
• Cache tool
• APIs
• Cache tools
• Database(in some cases)
• and other Miscellaneous info.

A glimpse —

What you have to do: Just go to extensions/add-ons in your browser and search for “wappalyzer” and install it/add to <browser>.

Did you know about these technologies ( being used on famous websites) —

• YouTube — Polymer (JS Framework)
• Wikipedia — Varnish (Cache tool)
• Stackoverflow.com — Elementor & WordPress (For CMS and Blog)
• web.whatsapp.com — Lodash (JS Library)
• Quora — Nginx (Web server)

Comment if you find/know some unheard tech being used on famous sites like some of above which people may like to know. 

Thanks for reading. Any feedback is welcome.