Stack censusSurvey 017 · 08.10.2026

What 1,193 real websites are built with.

Fetched every morning, read, and counted. Every figure links to the line of the response that proves it.

Any of the 1,224 products, or any of the 481 things found on them.

products asked
1,224
answered
1,193
things found
481
next survey
09.10.2026dd.mm.yyyy · 06:00 UTC

The green and red figures are the movement since the last survey, counted only on the products that answered in both.

What the page is built with

The framework, the CSS, the component layer — whatever left a trace in the HTML or the stylesheet.

and 110 more found on fewer products.

Where it is served from

Read off the response headers: who answered, and what sat in front of them.

and 49 more found on fewer products.

Where their email goes

From the MX records on the domain. It is the one part of a company's stack that cannot be hidden behind a CDN.

What is watching the visitor

Analytics, tag managers and ad pixels loaded by the home page itself.

and 34 more found on fewer products.

How they take money

Only what the marketing page loads. A checkout behind a login is invisible from here, and the counts are low because of it.

and 6 more found on fewer products.

How they answer customers

Chat widgets, CRM tags and marketing automation — the tools that expect a human on the other end.

and 3 more found on fewer products.

What tells them it broke

Error reporting and performance monitoring, which almost nobody loads on a marketing page.

and 8 more found on fewer products.

Where the words and pictures live

The CMS, the image host and the search box.

and 38 more found on fewer products.

What stands at the door

Bot management, captchas and cookie banners.

and 12 more found on fewer products.

Everything else

Found and counted, and not part of any question above. Nothing is dropped for being awkward to file.

and 45 more. The filter at the top reaches all of them.

Where the 1,224 products come from

51 commercial products picked by hand — the tools an indie founder already reads about — and 1,173 more taken from two public lists, awesome-selfhosted and awesome-sysadmin, so that every row traces back to somebody else’s list rather than to a list I typed myself. All 1,224 are named here.

The list is fixed between surveys: a census that gains and loses members cannot tell a real change from a change of population. 31 did not answer this time and are left out of every figure above. The next survey runs on 09.10.2026 at 06:00 UTC, and anything that moves overnight lands on what changed. How this is measured, and the four things it cannot see, are on the method page.