Is This Website Built With Jimdo? How to Tell
German website builder whose Dolphin editor assembles a site from a short questionnaire.
Paste the URL into the analyzer and the Overview card shows a “Built with Jimdo” badge when the page matches, alongside the full tech stack, SEO audit and performance scores.
What Jimdo is
Jimdo is a long-running website builder popular with small businesses in Europe. Its Dolphin editor builds a starting site from a few questions about the business, while the older Creator editor offers a more manual approach. Sites are hosted on jimdosite.com or jimdofree.com subdomains, or on a custom domain.
Signals the analyzer checks for Jimdo
The detector searches the page HTML for any of these strings. One match reports the builder with high confidence.
jimdo.com/jimdosite.comjimdofree.com
How to check it yourself
- Check the address. *.jimdosite.com and *.jimdofree.com are Jimdo's free hosting.
- Open the page, press Ctrl+U (Cmd+Option+U on a Mac) to view the source, then use Ctrl+F to search it. Search for "jimdo.com/" in asset and script URLs, which point at Jimdo's CDN.
- Look for a Jimdo credit link in the footer, mandatory on free plans.
- Legal pages such as Impressum and Datenschutz generated by Jimdo's templates are a strong hint on German-language sites.
What Jimdo sites usually show in an audit
- Jimdo serves static pages over HTTPS from its own infrastructure, so transport checks and basic caching pass.
- Questionnaire-generated sites keep stock imagery and short copy. Thin content and large images are the typical findings.
- Per-page titles and descriptions are editable but rarely filled in beyond the home page.
- Free-plan sites carry Jimdo advertising, which the analyzer notes as third-party scripts and a trust-signal concern.
These are tendencies from audits, not rules. Run the analyzer on the site in question, then use the fix guides for anything it flags, or compare it with a competitor.