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Site Info - 4shared.com

Overview of web technologies used by 4shared.com.

Website Background

4shared.com - free file sharing and storage
Online file sharing and storage - 15 GB free web space. Easy registration. File upload progressor. Multiple file transfer. Fast download.

Description on Homepage

A simple and easy-to-use service offering free online files storage and sharing accessible worldwide.

Description from Alexa

11 January 2005

Online since

Number 127 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
Brazil12.7%22
Indonesia12.4%13
Iran9.3%12
CityVisitorsCity Rank
Jakarta, ID4.4%16
Tehran, IR2.9%15
Bangkok, TH2.1%20

Main visitors locations

Java is a general-purpose language originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

Java

JavaScript is a lightweight, object-oriented, cross-platform scripting language, mainly used within web pages.

JavaScript

Adobe Flash (by Adobe Systems, formerly Shockwave Flash and Macromedia Flash) is a multimedia platform for adding animation and interactivity to web pages.

Flash

Silverlight is a rich web application technology by Microsoft.

Silverlight
(used until recently)

JQuery is a JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating and Ajax interaction. Originally developed by John Resig.

JQuery 1.6.4
(54% of sites use a newer version)

HTML - Hypertext Mark-up Language - is the a language to define web pages.

HTML

UTF-8 (8-bit Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode, which is backwards compatible with ASCII.

UTF-8

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a lossless compression image format, originally introduced by CompuServe and suitable to store graphics, logos and simple animations.

GIF

External Cascading Style Sheets define style rules in a separate CSS file.

External CSS

Embedded Cascading Style Sheets define a set of style rules in a <style> element within a web page.

Embedded CSS

Inline Cascading Style Sheets define style rules directly within an (X)HTML element using the style attribute.

Inline CSS

Session cookies are temporary cookies, which are deleted when the user closes the browser.

Session Cookies

Persistent cookies with an expiration time of up to 1 day.

Cookies expiring in hours

Persistent cookies with an expiration time between 1 and 10 years.

Cookies expiring in years

Non-HttpOnly cookies are used in the HTTP protocol and also in client side scripts, which may be a security threat.

Non-HttpOnly Cookies

Non-secure cookies may be used via an unencrypted connections, which may be a security threat.

Non-Secure Cookies

Gzip (GNU zip) is a file compression algorithm.

Gzip Compression

Go Daddy is an IT service provider, amongst others operating as SSL certificate authority. This includes ValiCert certificates, now operated by Go Daddy.

Go Daddy

The Google +1 button allows visitors to recommend web pages to friends.

Google +1

Apache Tomcat is an open source Java servlet container that functions as a web server, developed by the Apache Software Foundation

Tomcat
(used until recently)

The Google Libraries API is a content distribution network for the most popular, open-source JavaScript libraries, provided by Google.

Google Libraries API

Google Analytics is a free service to get detailed statistics about the visitors of a website, provided by Google.

Google Analytics

LiveInternet is a Russian web access counter service.

LiveInternet

StatCounter is a free hit counter and real-time web tracker.

StatCounter

Quantcast provides visitor statistics of web sites.

Quantcast

BlueKai collects website visitor data and provides it to advertisers.

BlueKai
(used until recently)

Commercial entities

.com

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Technology Score

The technology score rates a site based on its technologies in a range from 0 to 100. It consists in a popularity score (how many sites use the same technologies), a traffic score (how much traffic have other sites using the same technologies) and a version score (how many sites use more recent technology versions). Quality alerts also affect the rating.

TotalPopularity TrafficVersion
Technology Score63715746
Server-side Programming Languages451872
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries64965146
Markup Languages606653
SSL Certificate Authorities463657
Social Widgets586253
JavaScript Content Delivery Networks749653
Traffic Analysis Tools799069

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