# How to See What’s Behind a Website (FULL GUIDE)

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/how-to-see-what-s-behind-a-website-full-guide/77308>\
**Category:** News & Articles\
**Tags:** programming, hacking, freebies\
**Created:** [April 5, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-see-what-s-behind-a-website-full-guide/77308 "2020-04-05T02:20:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ze380y](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/ze380y/32/48760_2.png) [@Ze380y](https://onehack.st/u/Ze380y)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-see-what-s-behind-a-website-full-guide/77308/1 "2020-04-05T02:20:35Z")

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On the surface, websites look like they’re designed to make information available to the public. However, there is plenty of valuable information hiding _behind_ what you are able to see in your web browser.

## A website and its elements

- Website and webpage
- IP address
- Domain name
- Domain registrar, domain registrants & domain registration
- Web host
- Basic WHOIS Look-up
- GDPR implications
- Historic WHOIS
- Reverse WHOIS Look-up
- Finding information with shared hosting and reverse IP search
- Discovering useful information in a webpage’s source code
- Finding connections with reverse Google Analytics ID
- How can these searches help an investigation?
- Metadata analysis
- Exposing Hidden Web Content
- Robots.txt
- Sitemap.xml
- Subdomain enumeration
- Resources
  - Articles and Guides
  - Tools and Databases
  - Glossary

Very long & good read, one must have a look! 🙂

- [https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/how/web.html](https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/how/web.html)

[![](https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/_images/Investigating-Websites-cik-illustration.png) ](https://kit.exposingtheinvisible.org/en/_images/Investigating-Websites-cik-illustration.png)

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**Author:** ![uchiha\_Itachi1](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/uchiha_itachi1/32/36404_2.png) [@uchiha\_Itachi1](https://onehack.st/u/uchiha_Itachi1)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-see-what-s-behind-a-website-full-guide/77308/2 "2020-04-05T03:29:45Z")

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@Ze380y Yo!!! Thanks this helps a lot!!!

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**Author:** ![Shayla](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/shayla/32/174870_2.png) [@Shayla](https://onehack.st/u/Shayla)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2020, 12:16am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/how-to-see-what-s-behind-a-website-full-guide/77308/3 "2020-04-06T00:16:29Z")

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Thank you, it is very informative! 🎩