The Invisible Web

October 17, 2007

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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meattle

Good stuff!

Scott Rafer

How about a screen shot that promotes one of our publishers and therefore us?

dcancel

Great idea Scott! Just changed the screenshot to highlight one of our partners at Lookery.

Breck

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.

rex

very cool!

Dan Keldsen

How about exposing the Facebook Beacon? (while this world is still murky)