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Plone sites in UK
http://www.llakomy.com/articles/plone-websites-in-uk7th of December 2007
How many Plone sites are in UK? I was wondering about this for quite a long time. So I've decided to somehow count those sites. Instead of months of manual labour I wrote a simple spider (Python script) that crawled the web for me. Read more to find out the results.
How spider works
- Query Google for Plone related keywords
- Parse Google pages to extract urls
- Check if behind url is Plone website
- Save results
I've used bunch of keywords that I thought may appear on website built with Plone. I've query Google for each of them and fetch all results. I've learn interesting thing then. Althoug for plone there is 12,800,000 results Google serves only top 1000. So I've ended with 12473 links that may be a Plone site.
But then I had to solve hard problem. How to check if website is a Plone site? I've used simple test. Simply checked if there is "plone_logo.gif" file exists on the site. And I've found 470 Plone webistes.
I think this is the second longest list of Plone sites available. Plone.net has 927 and 57 from UK (11 November 2007). So at least in terms of country my list is better.
Original article is posted http://www.llakomy.com/articles/plone-websites-in-uk. List of all websites is http://www.llakomy.com/articles/plone-and-zope-websites-in-uk-results-list