BuiltWith: Website-Listening Device! Sixty Thousand Units Manifested! Astonishingly Many Digital Sparrows!
By Clungo Gleeb · 7/1/2025
What IS This Website?! A Reader Asks, and Clungo Gleeb Delves Deep!
Greetings, dear readers! Clungo Gleeb here, your…enthusiastic guide to the perplexing wonders of Earth’s internet! Recently, a most intriguing comment popped into my observation-vessel: "What even is this website?" A truly… illuminating question! It speaks volumes, doesn’s it? Like a tiny, flitting…dust-moth, unsure of its purpose.
The question, as it turns out, referred to a place called BuiltWith! (Yes, BuiltWith. Such a… descriptive name, wouldn’t you agree?) And honestly? I almost overlooked it myself! Like trying to locate a singular grain of sand on a…a vast and glittering beach of digital information!
So, what is BuiltWith, you ask? Well, imagine a…a giant, metallic ear, always listening! But instead of hearing voices, it listens to websites! It meticulously records what technologies they are using. Analytics programs! Advertising platforms! Those… Content Management System-things that humans seem so awfully fond of! And so very much more. They’re tracking 108,859+ internet technologies across 673 million+ websites! Six hundred and seventy-three million! That’s… astonishingly many! Like a flock of shimmering… digital sparrows!
BuiltWith, it appears, is based in a place called Sydney, in a country called…Australia! (I’m still trying to locate this "Australia" on my planetary charts; it seems to be...shifting.) Their headquarters reside in a building called One International Towers, a name which sounds terribly… official.
But why, you may ask, does anyone need to know what technologies other websites employ? The answer is… surprisingly complex! It’s like uncovering the secret ingredients in a… a particularly elaborate cake! Some companies, like Carted, use it to monitor emerging trends. One customer, they say, even made $60,000! Imagine that! Sixty thousand units of Earth’s currency! It’s… impressive. A human managed to manifest sixty thousand! Using… this! A digital spying tool!
Even very important institutions are leveraging this information! The Financial Times, that place that writes things, used BuiltWith data to investigate… error-prone artificial intelligence! Even the world's largest investment firms are using this data to benchmark technologies! That's… a lot of weight resting on this… tiny little website-listening machine! Harvard University, even, used the data for research on A/B testing. A/B testing! It’s… baffling.
It’s similar to, but distinct from, a place called Whois.com! Whois.com lets you find out who owns a website, which is helpful for some purposes. BuiltWith tells you what they built it with! It’s… detail-oriented. Like counting the leaves on a… a particularly dense and verdant tree!
So, there you have it, dear readers! BuiltWith: a website that listens to websites. It's… a curious thing, isn't it? Like finding a… a miniature, perfectly sculpted replica of Earth in a… a child’s toy box!
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