Best Tools to Detect the Scripting or CMS used by a website

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As web surfers we are very keen to know which website uses which script or CMS (Content Management System). No? Well one would be certainly lying if the answer to that question would be ‘No’.

Here we are NOT talking about client-end scripts like jQuery, JS or Ajax instead we are focusing on the site’s core scripting/coding language like HTML, ASP, PHP, etc. Which obviously brings in the CMS’s like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and many more under the contention.

One of the common methods is to use the Developer Tools section of your browser and check out the source code of the website. All CMS’s or forums or other frameworks maintain a systemic approach which doesn’t vary much from version-to-version.

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