Download websites that use Potions

Personalisation code has to run before the shopper sees the page, which is the only reason a crawler can see it at all. A recommendation engine that waited politely for the page to settle would be useless to the merchant paying for it, so the tag loads early, announces itself in the markup, and becomes measurable in passing.

Potions belongs to that class of Personalisation software. A detection means a third party script is running on the page with access to what the visitor looks at, clicks and abandons, and with permission to change what gets displayed in response. Anyone auditing a site for data flows should treat a detection as a question to follow up rather than a finished line item, because the interesting part is what the script sends and to whom, and no crawl answers that.

As of October 2026 we detect it on 37 sites, and the figure carries two caveats worth stating out loud. The name is an ordinary word and more than one product uses it, so a share of matches may belong to something unrelated. Personalisation vendors are also frequently loaded through a tag manager rather than directly, which hides them from a scan of the page source and pushes the real figure upward by an unknown amount.

AB Tasty is the name our record carries in the vendor field, and the license recorded against it is Proprietary. Licensing is the part of the row that carries a usable inference, because a paid license means every live installation sits behind a contract rather than a free download. No first release year and no version information are recorded, so the row supports no claim about maturity or release cadence, and anyone needing those will have to ask whoever operates the product today.

The audiences for a list like this are the ones who need a population rather than an example. Competing personalisation vendors want to know which merchants have already bought into behavioural targeting, since those merchants have made the internal argument once and will not need it made again. Consent and privacy researchers want the opposite reading of the same set, namely which storefronts run behavioural code and how that overlaps with the consent notices they show visitors. A single domain lookup serves neither group.