Site sector · 29 sites
What are reference websites built with?
As of 2026-10-02, we read the home pages of 29 reference websites among our popular sample: the most used CMS is WordPress (14%), the most used framework is React (10%) and the most used CDN or host is Cloudflare (55%).
Most used technologies
| Technology | Category | Sites | Share | vs all sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | CDN | 16 | 55% | 1.7x |
| Google Tag Manager | Tag manager | 10 | 34% | 0.8x |
| Cloudflare Bot Management | Security / bot protection | 8 | 28% | 2.9x |
| Google Publisher Tag | Advertising | 7 | 24% | 3.0x |
| jQuery | JavaScript library | 6 | 21% | 0.7x |
| OneTrust | Cookie consent | 6 | 21% | 2.8x |
| PHP | Programming language | 6 | 21% | 0.9x |
| Google Analytics | Analytics | 5 | 17% | 0.8x |
| Google Fonts | Fonts | 5 | 17% | 1.0x |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Analytics | 4 | 14% | 1.0x |
| Nginx | Web server | 4 | 14% | 0.6x |
| WordPress | CMS | 4 | 14% | 0.9x |
| Apache HTTP Server | Web server | 3 | 10% | 1.2x |
| Bootstrap | UI library | 3 | 10% | 1.1x |
| cdnjs | CDN | 3 | 10% | 1.3x |
| Font Awesome | Fonts | 3 | 10% | 1.1x |
| GSAP | JavaScript library | 3 | 10% | 4.7x |
| jsDelivr | CDN | 3 | 10% | 1.3x |
| React | JavaScript framework | 3 | 10% | 0.6x |
| Vue.js | JavaScript framework | 3 | 10% | 2.2x |
| Adobe Experience Platform Launch | Tag manager | 2 | 6.9% | 2.0x |
| Amazon Publisher Services | Advertising | 2 | 6.9% | 4.7x |
| Comscore | Analytics | 2 | 6.9% | 4.1x |
| jQuery Migrate | JavaScript library | 2 | 6.9% | 1.0x |
| Lottie | JavaScript library | 2 | 6.9% | 5.7x |
"vs all sites" compares the share here with the share among all 7,859 sites: 2.0x means twice as common.
Over-represented here
Technologies much more common on reference websites than on average (at least 5 sites):
| Technology | Sites | Share | vs all sites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Publisher Tag | 7 | 24% | 3.0x |
| Cloudflare Bot Management | 8 | 28% | 2.9x |
| OneTrust | 6 | 21% | 2.8x |
| Cloudflare | 16 | 55% | 1.7x |
Most popular reference websites
- archive.org #64
- w3.org #79
- doi.org #92
- who.int #114
- nature.com #126
- wiley.com #136
- arxiv.org #203
- goodreads.com #205
- ietf.org #212
- oup.com #238
- openstreetmap.org #248
- sagepub.com #287
- frontiersin.org #390
- biblegateway.com #396
- genius.com #417
- webmd.com #432
- rfc-editor.org #440
- healthline.com #454
- ultimate-guitar.com #532
- dafont.com #538
- plos.org #539
- themoviedb.org #604
- psychologytoday.com #607
- mydramalist.com #608
- bmj.com #620
- jstor.org #632
- calculator.net #634
- stackexchange.com #675
- elsevier.com #688
The number is the position in our popularity-ordered sample (1 = most popular).
FAQ
- What are reference websites built with?
- As of 2026-10-02, we read the home pages of 29 reference websites among our popular sample: the most used CMS is WordPress (14%), the most used framework is React (10%) and the most used CDN or host is Cloudflare (55%).
- Which technologies are most common on reference websites?
- Cloudflare (55%), Google Tag Manager (34%), Cloudflare Bot Management (28%), Google Publisher Tag (24%), jQuery (21%) and OneTrust (21%) (share of the 29 sites analysed on 2026-10-02).
- What is typical for reference websites compared with all sites?
- Google Publisher Tag (3.0x as common as on average), Cloudflare Bot Management (2.9x as common as on average), OneTrust (2.8x as common as on average) and Cloudflare (1.7x as common as on average).