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Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Post by whatusername »

coderdude wrote: post #4
Killswitch wrote: post #2

What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?

A couple reasons come to mind: - PHP might be the most practical choice for some of these companies. The founder or lead tech might be most proficient in PHP for real-world applications (even if he adores Python or Ruby). - PHP might be the language that everyone on the team knows so they choose it to keep everyone equally involved in the production of the site. - The people commenting on HN aren't necessarily people…

At least 10 of those 31 PHP sites are likely for the CMS Frontend. (Wordpress and Drupal)

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Post by garazy »

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #24
tpiddy wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can't you verify with google analytics account now? the verification key isn't necessary right?

That's true. There's actually four ways to verify a site (meta tag, upload a file, DNS, or Google Analytics): http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#38... Lots of people use the meta tag method though.

Hi Matt,

The site won't show those that aren't doing non-meta ways so I suspect the actual registration would be higher than this. Although you can see the actual trending at http://trends.builtwith.com/Web-Master/Google-Webmaster

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Post by nhebb »

ry0ohki wrote: post #56
nhebb wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe I'm missing something - I'm no Google Analytics expert. Here's my reasoning as to why I like Google Webmaster Tools better than Google Analytics ...

For keywords, Google Analytics shows:

  - Visits
  - Pages/Visit
  - Avg. Visit Duration
  - % New Visits
  - Bounce Rate
Google Webmaster Tools:

  - Impressions
  - Clicks
  - CTR
  - Avg. position (SERP)
To me, the Google Webmaster Tools information is more actionable. I have a number of different pages optimized or certain key phrases. I can look at keyword rankings and prioritize SEO. I can spot high impression keywords that I don't have a targeted page for, and create one. I can look at the CTR and see which page descriptions could be tweaked to get a higher CTR. The GA information is interesting, but ultimately not as useful for my needs.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Post by facorreia »

fragsworth wrote: post #43
BigTuna wrote: post #11

IIS 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.

The point is, how one graph shows they're actually using IIS and the other shows no one is using Windows Server?

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Post by joshmaker »

archangel_one wrote: post #9

The pie charts seem like an odd way of counting some of these; for example, one site could use Facebook Like, Google +1 and a Tweet button all at once, but showing them as slices in a pie chart implies to me that the options are mutually exclusive.

Not just odd, but completely wrong. For data that doesn't add up to 100%, they should be using a bar chart or some other representation of data. Unfortunately, this is the sort of sloppiness that makes me wonder what other amateur mistakes might have been made in collating the data.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Post by zackzackzack »

garazy wrote: post #35

It'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…

Put up a copy of the categories and the technologies in each please. I want to go through and use d3 to make it look prettier and convey more information.

Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Post by [deleted] »

garazy wrote: post #35

It'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…

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Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies

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Post by mjwalshe »

coderdude wrote: post #30
Matt_Cutts wrote: post #16

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.

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…

The really useful part is it gives you an insight into how google sees you site.

And you might think you have done your canonical right - but I have seen some horrible mistakes made with the canonical tag.

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