You can do this by looking at only the source code? In my specific case, I wonder if this site a CMS.
Identifying whether a website uses CMS and which
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You can do this by looking at only the source code? In my specific case, I wonder if this site a CMS.
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if you use Firefox u can install wappalyzer plugin.
There’re also a lot of online services which detect CMS and used technologies: builtwith, w3techs, etc. The last one says that the given site was built with Umbraco CMS v.4.7
It uses Umbraco 4.7 (ASP.NET framework)
You can look at source code, but in this case I found it in the http response headers.
Besides checking source and headers manually, you can also use an online tool. A google search for “CMS detector” gives me:
This site seems to use ASP.NET technology from the following piece of source code :
But I do no know, if it uses a prewritten ASP.NET CMS or uses some ASP.NET framework or just plain ASP.NET.
If you know what you are looking for, you may use certain fingerprints of CMS’s to identify which is which. But it is possible to fake some site to seems as one CMS and infact it is plain or another CMS. There is no certain way to answer this, only you can guess cleverly.