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Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

#51

The pie chart indicates that only 15% of companies use CSS? That's clearly the wrong way to display this data. Very few of the technologies covered are mutually exclusive.

Also, noone uses Java and only one company uses Perl. Interesting or misleading? You be the judge.

I'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

#52

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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).

That information is not even close to being as complete as what they report to you in webmaster tools. There might be 2000 pages pointing back to your site and that query will return 50 (just an example, not hard numbers).

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Also, noone uses Java and only one company uses Perl. Interesting or misleading? You be the judge.

I'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.

I think if you combine Ruby on Rails and 'Ruby on Rails Token' it's larger than PHP. It's strange to me that they track this by their own detection algorithm instead of aggregating based on framework.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Interesting 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.

It's definitely not better keyword analysis, it's better then nothing keyword analysis. Not only are the aggregate numbers unhelpful, the "top keywords" are usually pretty far off from reality.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

#57

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Also, noone uses Java and only one company uses Perl. Interesting or misleading? You be the judge.

I'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.

And if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Two 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 c…

AdRoll does have an opt out, through the adchoices links on ads and through, http://www.adroll.com/about/privacy

Most advertisers that do display retarget attempt to build segments and suppress ads to buyers/logins from potential new customers. this can be difficult though with cookie deletion and people using multiple devices/browsers.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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post #57

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I'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.

And if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?

Yeah, pretty much. It's a whole lotta "meh".
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