How to determine the site's CMS?

Often, webmasters need to determine the site's CMS, which is very much like its functionality, appearance and generally the way it is arranged. Sometimes this is necessary only to simply learn the engine, and in some cases it is necessary to create a similar resource, but already its own.

There are several easy ways with which you can determine the CMS of the site you like.

1. The easiest thing is to write a letter to the author of the resource. Of course, in 90% of cases there will be no response or a refusal, but there is a possibility that the webmaster will not withhold this information, so you can use this method, especially since it does not take a lot of time.

2. You can try to define the CMS by the HTML code of the site pages (right mouse button or using the Ctrl + u keys). Many famous engines are easy to determine for some details. For example, "Wordpress" is easy to identify by adding "wp" to the folder names. Hide them is almost impossible, so many sites and blogs on the "Wordpress" declassify easily. If we talk about "Drupal", then it is given a directory "files", where various media files are stored. "Jumla", one of the most good free CMS for the store, is defined by the phrase "administrator" in the meta tag "author". In addition, the robots.txt file and the meta-tag generator can also output which engine is used on this resource. Of course, there are a lot of different loopholes in the code of the sites, with their help there is an opportunity to correctly determine the CMS.

3. A convenient method for webmasters will be various plug-ins to browsers. Such extensions often perform several functions at once, greatly simplifying the lives of optimizers and site creators. The most famous and effective among such plug-ins is RDSBar. Unfortunately, it is correct and for 100% this extension works only in Firefox. But with its help you can learn not only the site engine, but also many other useful parameters, for example, the last visit to the search robot, the indexing of a particular page, the PR and the site's TCI and the like. This plugin is a real find for the webmaster, so it should be installed on all site creators. To determine the CMS for the portal with the help of another well-known browser will help the extension of Chrome Sniffer. It takes quite a bit of space on the screen and does an excellent job of determining the engine and its version.

4. But the simplest and most primitive way is to use free CMS definition services. Usually in the database of these sites are set several dozen most used engines, and if there are coincidences, the used CMS is issued. By right the most used of all services is 2ip.ru. It's really a very good site, which conducts many free resource analyzes.

To correctly determine the CMS of the site you are interested in, you can and even need to use two or three ways to find out for sure. For example, to start, you can use the free service 2ip.ru and plug-in for the browser RDSBar, and after that try to find the characteristic matches in the code of the page with your own hand. In this case, the error will not be exact.