Download websites that use Webtrends

About Webtrends

An analytics tag dates a website the way a typeface does. Webtrends shipped its first product in 1993, when measuring a site meant parsing server log files and handing a report to a manager who had asked how many hits the company got last month. A tag from that lineage still answering requests in October 2026 says something specific about the organisation that owns the page.

Webtrends sold Analytics software into large enterprises, on premises as well as hosted, and the Proprietary model was the point. Organisations that could not send visitor data to an outside processor, among them banks, insurers, government departments and health providers, bought exactly this kind of product and kept it long after free hosted analytics became the default elsewhere. Procurement cycles at that scale run for years and migrations get deferred, so installations persist well past the moment the market moved.

As of October 2026 we detect Webtrends on 27 sites. A figure in that range is not a market share statement, and reading it as one would be a mistake. What the figure describes is a surviving installed base, and the useful property of a surviving installed base is that its members resemble each other. A domain still carrying this tag is likely to be running an older stack around it, to have a long lived internal owner for the web estate, and to be a candidate for a replatforming project that has already been postponed more than once.

Detection has a natural limit. Enterprise deployments often proxy the collection endpoint through a first party hostname, which strips the obvious vendor markers out of the page, so some installations are invisible to any crawler and our count sits below the real one. We publish what the crawl supports and say so.

One pattern worth looking for is co-presence. Organisations rarely switch measurement platforms cleanly, and a long overlap where the legacy tag and a modern one both fire on the same pages is the normal shape of a migration in progress. Because the dataset records every technology found on a domain rather than one answer per site, the overlap is visible directly, and a domain carrying only the older tag is at a different stage from one carrying two.

For a competing analytics vendor, a systems integrator or an analyst tracking the retirement of legacy marketing technology, the list is the deliverable. Checking one domain confirms one suspicion. Holding every detected domain lets you sort by country, top level domain and sector, watch the population shrink from one release of the dataset to the next, and time an outreach programme against the real pace of migration rather than against a guess.