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I was always curious about how things and technologies are done and how they works. When it goes to software and web applications I always wondered how it’s programmed and what tools were used during the development of that application.

Last week I found a great Web 2.0 application called BuiltWith which can find out what technologies were used to built a specific page. Using BuiltWith is as easy as putting the URL to the form and hitting Enter (or clicking on Lookup button) After that we get a list of technologies which powers the current website.

For example if you are curious what technologies are used here on Geek Hacks you can easily put geekhacks.com to the lookup form and follow up the list. You can see there that I’m using Google Analytics to track my visitors. Interesting thing there are the other popular websites which are also using Google Analytics and the overall percentage share of tested sites that are using it.

How BuiltWith works?

Okay, this is great tool, but what if I would like to know of what BuiltWith.com is built with? The easiest way to find out is to type in its URL to the lookup form Another answer is hidden in their FAQ’s:

When you lookup a page on BuiltWith, a robot goes off deep into cyberspace and looks at the page in question. It them compares that page with the technology list at BuiltWith.com and if it finds any matches, reports the information to you.

or:

BuiltWith.com detects technology by matching substrings of the technology name. If a page contains a matching substring it will report the page as featuring that technology.

Pretty easy, nah?

Last thing to note is that BuiltWith is a fresh new tool which means that it may not know all currently existing technologies, in this case there is a Suggest Technology page where you can suggest new technologies which should be added in the future.