CPAN

01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs CPAN

CPAN cpan.org

Wikidata: Perl package repository

Company

No imprint we could read

Online since

Not in the Internet Archive

Audience

Top 10K In English

02 · Privacy

What CPAN tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

20 of the 60 sites closest to CPAN match.

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   MetaCPAN metacpan.org English No trackers

   Search the CPAN - metacpan.org

   open source search engine for the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)

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   • GlobalSign
   • Google Search Console
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Fastmail

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   RubyGems rubygems.org English No trackers

   RubyGems.org | your community gem host

   package manager for Ruby

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   • Google Fonts
   • Google Workspace
   • SendGrid

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   PostgreSQL postgresql.org Top 10K English No trackers

   PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database

   The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database

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   • Font Awesome
   • nginx

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   crates.io English No trackers

   crates.io: Rust Package Registry

   crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects

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   • Amazon Route 53
   • SvelteKit

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   getcomposer.org Top 10K English No trackers

   Composer

   A Dependency Manager for PHP

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   Swift swift.org English No trackers

   Swift Programming Language

   Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

   • Google Search Console

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   Raku® raku.org English No trackers

   Raku®

   The Raku® programming language.

   • Google Search Console
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   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • htmx
   • jsDelivr

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   Bundler bundler.io English No trackers

   Bundler: The best way to manage a Ruby application's gems

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   • GitHub Pages
   • Google Workspace

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   NuGet nuget.org English No trackers

   NuGet Gallery | Home

   The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository for NuGet, the package manager for .NET.

   • Azure DNS
   • Bootstrap
   • Microsoft 365

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    MediaWiki mediawiki.org Top 10K English No trackers

    MediaWiki

    free and open-source wiki software, developed by the Wikimedia Foundation

    • Google Search Console

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    PCRE pcre.org Top 10K English No trackers

    PCRE - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

    The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5. PCRE has its own native API as well as a set of wrapper functions that correspond to the POSIX regular expression API.

    • nginx

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    Symfony symfony.com English No trackers

    Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development

    Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.

    • Google Search Console
    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • Google Workspace
    • Microsoft 365

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    docs.rs Top 10K English No trackers

    Docs.rs

    official documentation website for Rust libraries

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    • Amazon Route 53

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    sqlite.org Top 10K No trackers

    SQLite Home Page

    serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)

    • Google Workspace

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    JSDoc jsdoc.app English No trackers

    Use JSDoc: Index

    Official documentation for JSDoc.

    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS

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    NixOS nixos.org English No trackers

    Nix & NixOS | Reproducible builds and deployments

    Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.

    • Google Search Console
    • Apple Business
    • Astro
    • Brevo
    • Google Workspace
    • Netlify

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    CodeIgniter codeigniter.com English No trackers

    Welcome to CodeIgniter

    The small framework with powerful features

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    • Cloudflare
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Cloudflare Web Analytics
    • jQuery

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    Mercurial SCM mercurial-scm.org English No trackers

    Mercurial SCM

    cross-platform, distributed revision-control tool for software developers

    • Bootstrap
    • nginx

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    Msys2 msys2.org English No trackers

    Getting Started - MSYS2

    Software Distribution and Building Platform for Windows

    • Fastly
    • GitHub Pages

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    Lua lua.org Top 10K No trackers

    The Programming Language Lua

    Official website of the Lua language

    • nginx

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles CPAN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones CPAN uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what CPAN adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.