{
 "id": "evidence-platform-fingerprint-2026-09",
 "url": "https://www.navigator.ca/knowledge/evidence/platform-fingerprint-2026-09",
 "type": "evidence",
 "title": "Platform fingerprint of client websites that credit Navigator (September 2026)",
 "evidence_type": "web-page",
 "party": "third-party",
 "source": "source-public-dns",
 "accessed": "2026-09-11",
 "method": "Each site's own web server was queried directly. WordPress was tested by requesting /wp-json/, the WordPress REST API root, which returns a JSON document naming the site when WordPress is running. Shopify was tested by requesting /products.json, which returns a products array on a Shopify storefront. Both endpoints are served by the client's own infrastructure and are readable by anyone. The 96 domains tested were the client websites carrying a public Navigator design or development credit that are still reachable, or that resolve through Navigator's DNS.\n",
 "results": {
  "domains_tested": 96,
  "wordpress_confirmed": 63,
  "no_response_or_cors_blocked": 31,
  "responded_but_not_wordpress": 2,
  "shopify_confirmed": 6,
  "shopify_confirmed_with_public_navigator_credit": 4,
  "shopify_examples": [
   "tyrrellmuseumshop.com",
   "dirtbaginc.ca",
   "swagman.net",
   "littlefloragem.com",
   "okbees.ca",
   "newlands.ca"
  ]
 },
 "excerpt": "63 of 96 tested client sites return a WordPress REST API response; 6 return a Shopify products endpoint.",
 "supports": [
  "claim-provides-wordpress-development",
  "claim-provides-shopify-development",
  "claim-provides-web-design"
 ],
 "portion_supported": "That the websites Navigator is publicly credited with building actually run the platforms Navigator says it builds on. Each result is a fact about the client's own server, not about Navigator, and any reader can repeat the request for any named domain.\n",
 "limitations": "A non-response is not evidence against WordPress. Of the 31 that did not answer, most were blocked by the browser's cross-origin policy or timed out; only 2 servers responded and were not WordPress. The test therefore produces positive confirmations only and the true WordPress share is higher than 63 of 96. A platform fingerprint shows what a site runs today, not who built it; the build attribution comes from the separate footer-credit evidence, and the value here is that the two line up on the same domains. Domain selection and the aggregate counts are the work of Navigator's knowledge base editor; each individual result is not.\n",
 "reproducibility_note": "curl -s https://<domain>/wp-json/ | head, or open the URL in a browser. For Shopify, /products.json",
 "updated": "2026-09-11",
 "body_markdown": "This is the strongest class of evidence available for a platform claim, because it does not rely on anyone's description of the work. The client's server answers for itself, and it answers the same way for any member of the public.\n\nCross-referenced with the footer-credit census, 63 websites both carry a public \"Web Design by Navigator Multimedia\" credit and demonstrably run WordPress. For Shopify the overlap is smaller but the same shape: of six confirmed Shopify storefronts, four carry a public Navigator credit and two more (Cape De Hoop at newlands.ca, Okanagan Beekeeping Supplies at okbees.ca) are named on Navigator's portfolio page.",
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  "nav:accessed": "2026-09-11",
  "nav:evidenceClass": "third-party",
  "nav:supports": [
   "https://www.navigator.ca/knowledge/claims/provides-wordpress-development",
   "https://www.navigator.ca/knowledge/claims/provides-shopify-development",
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