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Technology detection

Website technology lookup

Paste a URL to find out what a site is actually built with: JavaScript frameworks and meta-frameworks, CMS and website builders, CSS frameworks, CDNs, analytics, payments, chat widgets, and security services — each match shown with the header, cookie, markup pattern, or asset URL that proved it.

Identify a site’s technology stack

Paste any public URL into the analyzer to read its raw source, run the SEO audit, grade its security headers, and detect the technologies it uses — free, with no signup and nothing stored.

Analyze a page

What the detector looks for

JavaScript frameworks and meta-frameworks

Next.js, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Remix, and Gatsby are matched on their build fingerprints — __NEXT_DATA__, /_next/static/, __NUXT__, /_nuxt/, __sveltekit_, or __remixContext — while React, Vue, Angular, and Svelte are matched on DOM markers such as data-reactroot and data-v- hashes.

CMS platforms and website builders

WordPress, WooCommerce, Drupal, Joomla, and Ghost are identified from paths like wp-content/, sites/default/files, /media/jui/, and generator meta tags. Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, and Webflow are caught through their asset hosts and data-wf- style markup.

CSS frameworks

Tailwind CSS is confirmed by counting utility-class clusters rather than trusting a single class name, so a page that merely happens to use flex is not reported as a false positive.

CDNs, hosting, and edge platforms

Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, Amazon CloudFront, Fastly, and Akamai are read from their send-off headers — cf-ray, x-vercel-id, x-nf-request-id, x-amz-cf-id, and x-fastly-request-id.

Analytics, tag managers, and marketing tools

Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, and HubSpot are matched on their script hosts, giving you an immediate read on what a page is measuring and who it shares data with.

Payments, chat, search, and security services

Stripe, Intercom, Crisp, Drift, Algolia, Disqus, Sentry, and Google reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha are all resolved from their embedded script URLs.

Four sources of evidence, always shown

HTTP response headers

Headers are the strongest signal because they are set by the server or the edge, not by the page. A server, x-powered-by, or platform-specific header frequently names the stack outright.

Cookie names

Cookie prefixes and names leak the platform and its plugins — a reliable fallback when markup has been minified beyond recognition.

HTML markup patterns

Meta generator tags, framework root elements, and templated class names are matched against the raw HTML exactly as the server returned it, with no script execution.

Asset URLs

Script, stylesheet, image, and link targets are scanned for library filenames and CDN hostnames, which is how a bundled React or an older jQuery build gets caught.

The evidence is displayed, not hidden

Every detected technology is listed with the category it belongs to and the signal that triggered the match — header, cookie, HTML markup, or asset URL — so you can verify the conclusion instead of trusting it.

Detection done honestly

We only report what the served HTML and headers actually support. Nothing is executed and nothing is inferred from a single ambiguous token, which is why the result is shorter — and more trustworthy — than a guess-heavy fingerprint database.

Where a technology lookup earns its keep

Competitor and market research

See at a glance which platforms a sector has standardised on, and how often a CDN or analytics suite recurs across the sites you track.

Migration and replatforming

Confirm what a site actually runs — including its CMS, plugins, and edge provider — before you scope a rebuild or estimate what has to be preserved.

Supporting a bug report

Establishing the framework and CDN behind a page turns “it looks broken” into a report someone can act on.

FAQ

Technology detection FAQs

The questions people ask most about this tool — and the limits worth knowing before you rely on it.

How accurate is the technology detection?

Every result is backed by evidence you can inspect: the HTTP header, cookie, HTML pattern, or asset URL that triggered it. Detection reads only the HTML and headers the server returns — it never executes scripts — so client-side-only libraries injected after load are not reported, and a technology is only listed when at least one concrete signal matches.

Why is Tailwind CSS sometimes missing from the list?

Tailwind is identified by counting a genuine utility-class cluster: at least two responsive variant prefixes such as sm: or lg: and at least eight distinct utility classes. A page that uses one or two utility names is not reported, because a single class like flex is not enough evidence to claim a framework.

Can it detect a technology that only runs in the browser?

Not if it leaves no trace in the delivered markup. The detector parses the raw HTML and response headers without running JavaScript, so anything added purely at runtime by client-side code will be invisible. That is the same view a non-rendering crawler gets, which is exactly what makes the result useful for SEO and security review.

Where do I find the detected technologies in the results?

They appear in the Technologies tab of the analysis, grouped by name with their categories and the evidence behind each match. The same detection also feeds the summary row at the top of the result.

Do you keep a record of the sites I look up?

No. The URL is fetched once, analyzed in memory, and discarded. No database row is created and no history is retained, so there is nothing to delete afterwards.