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Workbox

Developer Tools — The next version of sw-precache & sw-toolbox [Developer Tools, Tech]
Developer Toolsopen-sourceest. 2017
→ Redirected
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 16.0 · 1/4
16.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
18
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
5
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

The recorded URL now redirects offsite — often an acquisition, rebrand, or wind-down; the destination is recorded in the telemetry below. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
18 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 18 probesavg response 2487 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
developer.chrome.com
edge
direct origin
server
Google Frontend
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Workbox's listed URL redirected off its original domain (to https://developer.chrome.com/docs/workbox/) when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026 — we mark it redirected, not dead. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 5 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Übersichtdev-toolssimilar83%40.00.0● live
Arbiter IDEdev-toolssimilar83%40.00.0● live
Swipeddev-toolssimilar83%40.00.0● live
KnightOSdev-toolssimilar83%8.00.0— unverified
OpenClaude-Portableai-toolstag-overlap83%13.0-2.2— unverified
Chromium for Androiddev-toolssimilar83%49.6-0.9● live
Pepperonidev-toolssimilar71%40.00.0● live
Feature-rich terminal pager ovdev-toolssimilar71%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelopen-source
Liveness tierunknown
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:51Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend1564redirected_offsite
2026-08-17 13:33Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend2602redirected_offsite
2026-08-09 19:28Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend3081redirected_offsite
2026-08-08 04:33Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend2181redirected_offsite
2026-07-31 15:31Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend2208redirected_offsite
2026-07-26 17:26Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend4575redirected_offsite
2026-07-18 14:10Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend4856redirected_offsite
2026-07-13 13:57Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend2689redirected_offsite
2026-07-04 16:04Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend2599redirected_offsite
2026-07-03 00:43Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend1512redirected_offsite
2026-06-24 13:39Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend1661redirected_offsite
2026-06-23 12:50Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend1473redirected_offsite
2026-06-21 21:09Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend1925redirected_offsite
2026-06-20 17:42Z200workboxjs.org → developer.chrome.comGoogle Frontend1894redirected_offsite
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Workbox · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/workbox-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.