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by lajr 2478 days ago
What extension is this?
2 comments

Wappalyzer [1] is much better in my opinion.

And is available for both Chrome [2] and Firefox [3] as well as a Bookmarklet [4].

The extension that @pier25 is using seems to be available only on Google Chrome [5].

[1] https://www.wappalyzer.com/

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wappalyzer/gppongm...

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/wappalyzer/

[4] https://www.wappalyzer.com/download

[5] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ui-stack/ijagboogl...

Wappalyzer's results for example.com, a 1.3 KB static page with no JS or sub-requests, include eight JS frameworks and two web font providers. Its results for facebook.com include a web framework made by Yahoo and deprecated in 2014. It says Youtube is built on WordPress, and HN is a React app with custom fonts.
> HN is a React app with custom fonts

I only see that HN runs on NGinx.

I was using the "Technology lookup" box on the homepage, testing with the extension I get only Nginx too. And Youtube seems right and example.com maybe right, though nothing at all for Facebook.
Similar tools include WhatRuns [1] (Chrome only).

[1] https://www.whatruns.com/

Thanks, Wappalyzer looks pretty awesome.