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Site Info - About.com

Overview of web technologies used by About.com.

Website Background

About.com: Do more.
About.com is a valuable resource for content that helps people to solve the large and small needs of everyday life.

Description on Homepage

Directory featuring links, articles and reviews.

Description from Alexa

12 March 1999

Online since

Number 79 of all websites according to Alexa

Popularity rank

CountryVisitorsCountry Rank
United States43.2%32
India14.1%45
United Kingdom4.8%62
CityVisitorsCity Rank
New York, NY, US3.7%37
Los Angeles, CA, US3.1%39
San Francisco, CA, US1.9%38

Main visitors locations

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

JavaScript

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

JQuery 1.6.1
(60% of sites use a newer version)

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

HTML

ISO-8859-1 (informally also called Latin-1) is an 8-bit character set for Western European languages.

ISO-8859-1

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a lossy compression method suitable to store photographic images.

JPEG

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

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

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

Inline CSS
(used until recently)

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

Session Cookies
(used until recently)

Nginx (pronounced as "engine X") is a lightweight open source web server developed by Igor Sysoev.

Nginx 1.2.7
(version 1.2.6 used until recently)
(8% of sites use a newer version)

Commercial entities

.com

English

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 Score65765466
Client-side Programming Languages7610051
JavaScript Libraries62965140
Markup Languages596653
Web Servers64405992

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