Veronika Vilgis

Tech

As you hopefully know, at Dataprovider.com we index the entire internet on a monthly basis and structure the data. In order to meaningfully structure data we frequently need to classify data, detect new data and assess data quality. For example, in order to determine to which country a website belongs, you generally need to take various sources of information into account such as the language used on the website, whether there is an address or where the website is hosted.

Data quality: a glimpse into our annotation team

Jasper van Thuijl

The world wide web is a massively valuable source of information, but also largely unorganized. How do we structure it?

Internet Basics Series #4: The difference between crawling and scraping

Internet Basics Series

Technology detection

Hylke van der Veen

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communication protocol that is used for communication between web servers (e.g., a website) and clients (e.g., your browser) on the internet.

Internet Basics Series #3: HTTP requests explained

Mathijs Baas

Headless CMSs are a relatively new technology, but they've already become popular. They're fast and easy to use, and they allow developers to build faster websites with more flexibility than traditional CMSs. In this post, we'll take a look at five of the most popular headless CMSs on the market today.

The five most popular headless content management systems

Tech news

Web trends

In the world of appointment scheduling tools, Calendly is probably the best known tool out there, but is it also the most popular in terms of true usage? And what is the competition like?

What’s the most used appointment scheduling tool on the internet?

What do you type in your browser: a hostname, a domain or a website? And what’s the difference between these? In the first part of our brand new series, Internet Basics, we shed light on the structure of web addresses.

Internet Basics Series #1: Web addresses explained

domains

Christian Branbergen

Since social media platforms can help companies connect with their customers, increase brand awareness or boost leads and sales, can we assume that all companies with a website would also use social media?

Do most companies mention their social media profiles on their website?

Fact Checking with Chris

Security

Is there a shift from in-person to online shopping? Can we see this in the number of online shops that also have a physical location? Let's find out in this "Fact Checking With Chris."

Do most online stores have a physical store as well?

Gijs Barends

A common problem in the online advertizing world is domain spoofing. Placing an ads.txt file on your website is a simple and effective solution to prevent this. Find out what ads.txt is and how you can use it to prevent ad fraud in this Insights article.

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