The future development of Wappalyzer, a highly promising Firefox add-on developed by Elbert Filius, a Dutch ex-pad living in Australia, is now under the support and direction of AOE media.

The name Wappalyzer stands for Web Application Analyzer. It’s a software identifier that, like many other add-ons, lives in the status bar of your browser. Wappalyzer takes into account different Content Management Systems, JavaScript frameworks and Web Analytics software.

The advantages: easy comparison of different web solutions as well as fast identification of applications currently running on any website you happen to visit. The results will sometimes surprise even experienced web-workers. The list of software and statistical tools Wappalyzer supports is constantly growing, making it ever more valuable to its users.

The Wappalyzer.com website offers and publicly available statistics that reveal the growth of web based software over time and their popularity compared to others. This data has not been available before and is of value for businesses and people with an interest in web applications.

AOE media’s engagement for this software, once again confirms its entrepreneurial commitment to Open Source.