Find out What CMS a Site is Using

By Jake • June 5th, 2012 • 9 Comments

Friend of the ‘Lab John Brunswick (@johnbrunswick) is on a roll this week. After providing a nice collection of WebCenter Sites resources earlier in the week, he posted a neat tool that will tell you what CMS a site is running, as well as what web analytics and social tools.

Check it out on his post.

It’s not a finished product, so he says. Your mileage may vary. Still, it’s pretty interesting.

Here’s what it says about his site and this one.

If you’re wondering, it can detect WebCenter Content and Sites CMS as well as Drupal and several others I’ve found.

Of course, this stuff can be found by pouring over the page source, but this is a nice and easy way to offload that work onto a tool.

Interesting stuff. Thanks to John for sharing. Feel free to hit his post with any comments.


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9 Responses to “Find out What CMS a Site is Using”

  1. Best Workout Songs Says:
    June 5th, 2012 at 5:13 pm

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  2. John Brunswick Says:
    June 5th, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    Thanks for the kind words Jake!
    It was a fun exercise putting it together.  It is meant as a technical proof of sorts, as it does not handle things like redirection once a session ID is appended to a URL.  Would be great to hear other people’s experiences, as I will periodically update and tune using a “fingerprint” file that stores the logic.

  3. Jake Says:
    June 5th, 2012 at 7:19 pm

    It’s a great little tool, thanks for sharing it. You should put it on a page so it won’t get lost within your blog. If you want assistance, put the code up on Github so anyone can tinker. I’m sure there will be interested people.

  4. uvox Says:
    June 6th, 2012 at 8:56 pm

    Very, very cool. Very, very useful. That is all. Thanks for sharing!

  5. Gary Myers Says:
    June 8th, 2012 at 1:47 am

    For comparison, check out 
    http://builtwith.com

  6. Jake Says:
    June 8th, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    Hadn’t see that one, very complete and detailed. Thanks for sharing.

  7. joel garry Says:
    June 8th, 2012 at 2:57 pm

     I put in tkyte.blogspot.com and nothing was recognized.  I put in my own blogspot, and it said…wordpress. lol

  8. Jake Says:
    June 10th, 2012 at 1:23 pm

    As John says, work in progress :) Gary’s suggestion might work better.

  9. Elida Says:
    February 21st, 2013 at 12:31 am

    This is exactly the fourth article, of urs I really read through.
    Although I actually like this specific 1, “Find out What
    CMS a Site is Using | The AppsLab” the very best. All the best -Marina

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