The Invisible Web
Ever wonder what trackers a site is using?
Well maybe I’m the only one that spends way too much time reading the source code of sites to find out what they’re using. I finally got smart and found someone (Ryan Weir) on RentACoder to write a greasemonkey script for me to make my life easier.
Here it is in-case anyone else cares. Suggestions and feedback appreciated.
Install the
Invisible Web
greasemonkey script now.
Release History
1.2 - Update to include Lookery variant.
1.1 - Update to include Statcounter and Omniture variant.
1.0 - Updated to include Omniture, Snap.com, Crazy Egg, WebSideStory/Visual Sciences
0.98 - Initial Release
Posted By David Cancel 
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Good stuff!
Comment by Jay Meattle — October 20, 2007 @ 7:42 pm
How about a screen shot that promotes one of our publishers and therefore us?
Comment by Scott Rafer — November 1, 2007 @ 6:52 pm
Great idea Scott! Just changed the screenshot to highlight one of our partners at Lookery.
Comment by dcancel — November 1, 2007 @ 8:12 pm
Nice script.
I read lots of HTML source as well. It’s a great way to get ideas for 3rd party apps(that’s how I stumbled upon crazyegg for instance). But I must say I generally use it to gauge the sophistication of the site operator.
The next extension would be to combine it with a crawler. It would be interesting to see the stats on the top 10k or 25k sites. I bet a lot of interesting insights could be gleamed. In particular, I wonder if a site’s 3rd party widgets would correlate with the traffic of that site. This could highlight whether staying up to date with current trends & web 2.0 technology is a common trait among successful sites.
Comment by Breck — November 2, 2007 @ 7:13 pm
very cool!
Comment by rex — November 10, 2007 @ 3:09 pm
How about exposing the Facebook Beacon? (while this world is still murky)
Comment by Dan Keldsen — December 1, 2007 @ 2:15 am