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Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
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#42Interesting to see which companies are savvy enough to sign up for Google's free webmaster tools: http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator/Google-W... The list includes Dropbox, Scribd, WePay, OMGPOP, Loopt, and Weebly, but a lot of sites are missing out on potentially useful information--only 18% of 136 sites were detected as signed up with webmaster tools.
I used to sign up for webmaster tools but after a while I just didn't find the utility in it anymore. I'm able to control which domain Google sees as canonical (bare vs. www) without using webmaster tools. That was why I started using it in the first place. Though it's nice to see crawl errors or other potential issues. From what I understand GA isn't showing search keywords now for users that are logged into their G…
> A killer feature of WT that I think no one should do without is that it shows you what pages on the web are linking to your site.
You can get the same information by simply googling for "link:example.com" (of course with your domain instead of example.com).
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#43IIS took a roughly 5% share on web servers but Windows doesn't appear on the OS breakdown at all...
These are startups. IIS may have taken some of the market for more stable companies but it's not really practical for cash-strapped startups to use IIS. Also, college talent typically has greater affinity for Linux.
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#44Stripe's suspiciously missing from this list. I think there should be at least one YC company using Stripe at least?
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#45I am the only one surprised with the Django representation?
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#46It's nice to see builtwith on the HN homepage, thanks for submitting this page Alex. I'm reading through everyone's feedback and will make changes accordingly, thanks everyone for commenting. A few notes and things I will clean up - * The pie charts I admit appear misleading thanks for affirming this, for widgets and technologies they show the leading tool but for document based technologies like CSS/JS they don't lo…
I think the pie charts aren't just broken for document based technologies, they are wrong for anything where a user can have more than one of the tools. For example on our site we are using multiple types of advertising (including our own), multiple types of widgets, etc. That being said, very cool that you were able to pull this together - the raw data here is very neat and it would be cool if we could even dive in…
Thanks I've added a link to a CSV with the domains and technologies found in the run (Which was a few months ago now).
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#47Two observations:
- X-FRAME-OPTIONS: IMO, more people should know about and use this.
- Adroll: Would be much more effective if it didn't keep showing me ads for products that I already use. I wish it had an opt-out so I'd quit seeing the same ads over and over again everywhere I go online.
P.S. I know others balk at the pie charts (for good reason), but for me it's irrelevant. I go straight for the numbers and the charts add a nice visual break so that it doesn't look like a wall of text. So at least they have that going for them. :-)
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#48IIS took a roughly 5% share on web servers but Windows doesn't appear on the OS breakdown at all...
These are startups. IIS may have taken some of the market for more stable companies but it's not really practical for cash-strapped startups to use IIS. Also, college talent typically has greater affinity for Linux.
Cash-strapped startups can get the software for free (for a few years) via BizSpark (http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark).
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#49I am the only one surprised with the Django representation?
The way it's detecting Django (checking for the Django CSRF cookie) is false-negative prone. For example, our site (crocodoc.com) uses Django but is not registering for it; probably because we don't have any forms on our homepage so no CSRF cookie.
Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
#50Interesting to see which companies are savvy enough to sign up for Google's free webmaster tools: http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator/Google-W... The list includes Dropbox, Scribd, WePay, OMGPOP, Loopt, and Weebly, but a lot of sites are missing out on potentially useful information--only 18% of 136 sites were detected as signed up with webmaster tools.
For those who haven't used it, Google Webmaster Tools provides better keyword and search analysis than Google Analytics does. It's a great tool set.