Uncover the Technology used on a Website!

As a Technology oriented person, most of the time when I visit a Website I often try to find out what technologies have been used for the development of that awesome website as it gives me the insight about a website and helps me to understand the technologies better.

First of all, I try to check out the extension of the homepage of website to which I am redirected to after typing the URL directly into the address bar or by going to the website via Google Search, looking at the extension we can uncover the web development technology used for the Website Development, It can be either .php(PHP), or .aspx(ASP.net) or .jsp(JSP) but nowadays the developers try to hide these extensions via a file called .htaccess so that no one can know about the web development language. Still, I have found an awesome way of uncovering technologies behind Websites and for this, we simply have to add an extension to our favorite Chrome Browser.

The extension that helps us to uncover the technologies used on a Website is Wappalyzer. Wappalyzer is a cross-platform utility that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, e-commerce platforms, web frameworks, server software, analytics tools and much more.

You can add it to your chrome browser from here. Wappalyzer recognizes 1010 applications in over 50 categories, you can check out the list here. Once the extension is added into the chrome browser you simply need to click on it. Whenever you visit a website, the Wappalyzer icon will get changed according to the technology used and by clicking on it, you will see a complete list of all the technologies that are integrated together for the creation of that particular web application.

If you are a user of Mozilla FireFox you can add Wappalyzer from the following link. 

Examples:

TechnicalDose Analysis

Wappalyzer actual Website Analysis

WordPress Blog Analysis

That's it in this article of mine, I hope you guys have enjoyed reading it and If you want to know about technologies used for a Website then you can surely use this awesome extension.