web-archive-analysis

What problem does it solve?

This Skill solves the challenge of identifying which technologies a website used over time, and when migrations occurred, when only the current implementation is available.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Wayback Machine CDX querying: Retrieves historical snapshot metadata (e.g., by year/month collapse) for a target domain.
• Snapshot selection and archived retrieval: Chooses representative points in time and fetches the corresponding archived pages for signal extraction.
• Technology timeline and migration detection: Compares technology signals across snapshots to infer additions/removals and summarize likely migration events (e.g., CMS to React/Next.js, hosting/CDN shifts).
• Use Case: Investigate a competitor’s modernization timeline by identifying when WordPress signals disappeared and React/Next.js assets started dominating, then produce a timeline of technologies and inferred migration windows.

Quick Start

Ask the system to analyze example.com’ Wayback snapshots and return a technology timeline plus any detected migrations with confidence scores.