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
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Good stuff!
How about a screen shot that promotes one of our publishers and therefore us?
Great idea Scott! Just changed the screenshot to highlight one of our partners at Lookery.
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.
very cool!
How about exposing the Facebook Beacon? (while this world is still murky)
Your last bit though, the part with the retina and occipital lobe. I'm not sure we need to go that far in order to call technology invisible. The alphabet certainly isn't there yet and it is at the stage where I would call it totally immersed. I think, as with the blind man's cane. That elements don't have to be weaved into us physically in order to become invisible, we will adapt and extend ourselves into the things that we eventually wont consciously think of as external any more.