DataLife Engine (DLE) is a commercial PHP news and publishing CMS widely used on Russian-language sites.
About 158,323 websites in the PageSourceSearch index contain the code that reveals it; the 48 highest-ranked are listed below.
How is DataLife Engine detected?
DLE templates declare the dle_root JavaScript variable in an inline script on every page. The discovery keyword is the exact bytes PageSourceSearch looks for in every stored page and script:
A literal is matched byte for byte, case-sensitively. Combine it with another keyword, a domain, a kind or a date filter on the search page to narrow the list. About DataLife Engine
Top 50 websites using DataLife Engine
Ranked by the domain's position in the crawl's ranked list (Common Crawl harmonic centrality), highest first. view source opens the stored page or script with the match highlighted. Computed 2026-10-04 12:19:59 UTC; the list stopped short of 50 because the search's budget ran out.
How does PageSourceSearch know a website uses DataLife Engine?
By the source itself: DLE templates declare the dle_root JavaScript variable in an inline script on every page. PageSourceSearch stores the raw HTML and first-party JavaScript of each crawled site and matches the keyword byte for byte, so every listed site's stored source contains it.
Is this a complete list of websites using DataLife Engine?
No. The page lists the 50 highest-ranked sites in the index whose source holds the keyword, out of about 158,323 websites that do; the count is the index's estimate at the time the list was computed. Run the keyword as a search to page through all of them, or add a kind or date filter.
How do I find websites that use DataLife Engine together with another technology?
Search for both keywords at once: several terms separated by spaces must all be found on the same site, or with the Same page toggle in the same page. For example dle_root with wp-content/plugins/ lists the WordPress sites that use DataLife Engine.