Is there a service where you can submit a url/domain and have it figure out what CMS is powering the site? I would use it all the time. Scanning the source to get clues used to be kind of fun, but now I just want to know quickly.
There’s a Firefox addon called Backend Info that works pretty well. It can even figure out the CMS’ version. Backend Info supports WP, Drupal, Joomla, Mediawiki, and a host of other platforms. (Hat tip to Alex for introducing me to it.)
The FF addon is nice for my own curiousity, but it would be awesome if this info was generated/collected in a central location. Then we’d have an independent database tracking CMS usage patterns.
This would be a fun project that gets better as more people participate — both by adding “CMS markers” to improve the detection algorithm and by submitting websites to improve the usage statistics. I suppose the thing could just crawl the Internet cataloging as many sites as possible.
This has to exist already, right? If not, someone must be working on it. Right? Anybody?
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