Download websites that use Mojolicious

About Mojolicious

Working Perl web applications still get written, and Mojolicious is where a good share of the recent ones are built. A correction about our own record belongs before anything else: the catalogue files this framework under a category label that names a different language entirely. Filter by name rather than by category when you build a list from this page, and treat the category column here as a bucketing artefact rather than as a description of the technology.

With that out of the way, the interesting property of Mojolicious is how hard it is to see at all. A server side framework renders a page and then disappears. Nothing in the resulting HTML has to say what produced it, and unlike a CMS there is no admin path, no generator tag and no plugin directory to give the game away. Detection depends on incidental evidence: a header a deployment did not strip, a default error page, an asset path, a cookie name. As of October 2026 we detect Mojolicious on 101 sites, and the figure should be read as the subset that leaked something rather than as the size of the population.

The undercount is less a flaw in the data than a property of the category, and it changes what the list is good for. As a market share estimate it is unusable. As a verified sample it is valuable, because every domain in it is a site where a specific framework signature was actually observed. For anyone studying where Perl still runs in production rather than in nostalgia, a confirmed list of live public sites beats any survey of developer opinion, and no amount of checking domains one at a time will reproduce it.

The framework itself is worth understanding before the list is useful. Mojolicious has been developed since 2010 under the Artistic License 2.0, the licensing family the wider ecosystem around its language already uses, so it is freely deployable and leaves no purchase trail anywhere. Mojolicious was designed for non blocking request handling and real time connections, which places it alongside event driven stacks in other languages rather than alongside the scripting era frameworks it is often assumed to resemble.

A public site running it usually means one of a few things. There is in house engineering, often a team with long standing expertise inherited from an earlier system, or there is a specialist consultancy working in this stack, or the site is an internal tool that happens to be publicly reachable. Every one of those is a meaningful qualification for a recruiter, a consultancy or a researcher tracking language use in production. What the download gives you is the hostnames, which is where that analysis has to start.