I have added my site but I don't see my favicon, what happened?
Favicons are added on the fly, meaning that when you submit your website, our engine crawls your site to fetch
the favicon. We make use of the following regular expression to parse the favicon url:
'/<([^>]*)link([^>]*)(rel="icon"|rel="shortcut icon")([^>]*)>/iU'
Which translates to something like this:
<link rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
Why is there no thumbnail for my website?
Unlike favicons, thumbnails are not created on the fly. Instead we use several fixed intervals to create thumbnails.
No worries though, all websites will have a preview shot soon.
Why did I get banned?
We have a very sophisticated and tight spam detection system, most likely the system has automatically banned you from
the system. If you believe that a mistake has been made, use the
contact form to notify us. We will have
any issue sorted promptly.
The tags I've added are not displayed, why?
It may take a while before your tags are displayed as our tagging engine updates every 30 minutes.
Please be patient, your tags will definitely appear.
I can't add my site: Domain flagged as unsafe!
In order to protect our users from scam and virus sites, we check all entries to determine if a site is safe or not.
If a site has been flagged, a link with additional info will be displayed.
Some site feeds are not displayed (deprecated)
Our system detects feeds automatically when a website is submitted. Both Rss and Atom feeds are supported. There might be several reasons
as to why some feeds are not available:
- No feed tags in html header
- Our crawler is rejected (no useragent)
- Your server is hard to reach (we enforce a 5 seconds timeout period)
What makes this website tick?
There is a lot of technology behind SitesLike:
- Webserver: Loadbalanced Lighttpd
- Databases: MySQL Server
- Front-end: PHP 5
- Favicon Fetchers: MONO C#
- Thumbnails: Windows C#
- Feed Crawlers/Parsers: MONO C# (deprecated)
- HTTP Status Checkers: MONO C#
We use C# because it's great for processing multiple websites at once, we usually run 50 concurrent threads on every single application.